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 Paraguay and from Bremen.
But I was there.
I was there in 1977.
I was there at the first Zapp show in Hamilton.
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 1969 to 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in New York and Spokane.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Bologna 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 guitar sounds with much patience.
I was there when Donald Fagen 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 China Crisis to the rock 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 John Holt. All the underground hits.
All Andrew Hill tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Todd Rundgren record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal techno hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a guitar and a mellotron and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Joey Negro record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a chamberlin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a theremin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Bootsy's Rubber Band,
The Moody Blues,
Grey Daturas,
Sugar Minott,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
The Pretty Things,
Max Romeo,
The Misunderstood,
MC5,
The Modern Lovers,
The Tremeloes,
Robert Hood,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
Scan 7,
Rod Modell,
Sam Rivers,
Radiohead,
Electric Light Orchestra,
Ponytail,
Susan Cadogan,
Symarip,
Pylon,
Connie Case,
Yusef Lateef,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
Hot Snakes,
Toni Rubio,
Gabor Szabo,
Ten City,
Sound Behaviour,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Groovy Waters,
Black Sheep,
New Order,
Masters at Work,
Nirvana,
DJ Sneak,
Pantytec,
The Selecter,
Make Up,
The Knickerbockers,
The Gladiators,
The Kinks,
Eli Mardock,
Tears for Fears,
Gil Scott Heron,
Bill Wells,
Lebanon Hanover,
Jerry Gold Smith,
Kas Product,
Ossler,
The Flesh Eaters,
Alton Ellis,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
Amazonics,
The Standells,
The Star Department,
CMW,
Siglo XX,
Average White Band,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
Scott Walker, Scott Walker, Scott Walker, Scott Walker.
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.