Infinitely Losing My Edge
Yeah, I'm losing my edge.
I'm losing my edge.
The kids are coming up from behind.
I'm losing my edge.
I'm losing my edge to the kids from Costa Rica and from Manchester.
But I was there.
I was there in 1976.
I was there at the first Soft Boys show in Cambridge.
I'm losing my edge.
I'm losing my edge to the kids whose footsteps I hear when they get on the decks.
I'm losing my edge to the internet seekers who can tell me every member of every good group from 1968 to 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Hong Kong and Lille.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Halifax kids in little jackets and borrowed nostalgia for the unremembered nineties.
I'm losing my edge.
I'm losing my edge.
I can hear the footsteps every night on the decks.
But I was there.
I was there in 1977 at the first Zapp practice in a loft in Hamilton.
I was working on the güiro sounds with much patience.
I was there when Nile Rodgers started up his first band.
I told him, "Don't do it that way. You'll never make a dime."
I was there.
I was the first guy playing Minor Threat to the jazz kids.
I played it at the 40 Watt.
Everybody thought I was crazy.
We all know.
I was there.
I was there.
I've never been wrong.
But I'm losing my edge to better-looking people with better ideas and more talent.
And they're actually really, really nice.
I'm losing my edge.
I heard you have a compilation of every good song ever done by anybody.
Every great song by Erykah Badu. All the underground hits.
All Marcia Griffiths tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Skriet record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal crunk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying an arpeggiator and a chamberlin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Zero Boys record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought an arpeggiator.
I hear that you and your band have sold your arpeggiator and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
the Swans,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
The Mummies,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Fluxion,
Television Personalities,
Pantytec,
X-102,
Josef K,
Bootsy's Rubber Band,
The Last Poets,
Motorama,
The Smiths,
Unrelated Segments,
The Smoke,
Harmonia,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
Thompson Twins,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Michelle Simonal,
Dawn Penn,
R.M.O.,
Bill Near,
Marcia Griffiths,
John Foxx,
Aaron Thompson,
DNA,
Skaos,
Ultimate Spinach,
Rufus Thomas,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
Deepchord,
The Dave Clark Five,
Joyce Sims,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
Desert Stars,
ABBA,
Schoolly D,
Bluetip,
Guru Guru,
Shuggie Otis,
Rakim,
Eddi Front,
Gang Gang Dance,
Livin' Joy,
Kaleidoscope,
Gang Starr,
Matthew Halsall,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
Brand Nubian,
The Sonics,
Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Marine Girls,
The Stooges,
F. McDonald,
Electric Light Orchestra,
The Slits,
Los Fastidios,
The Invisible,
Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson, Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson, Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson, Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.