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 Ecuador and from Tehran.
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 1967 to 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Manila and Copenhagen.
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 clarinet sounds with much patience.
I was there when Robert Palmer 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 Black Moon to the punk kids.
I played it at Cafe Wha.
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 Icehouse. All the underground hits.
All Camouflage tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Buckinghams record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grunge hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a linndrum and an oboe and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Ohio Players record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a 808.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a rhodes.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Angels of Light & Akron/Family,
The Real Kids,
Deakin,
Sight & Sound,
Procol Harum,
Derrick May,
Porter Ricks,
Rakim,
Janne Schatter,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
Oblivians,
Jimmy McGriff,
The Smoke,
Lower 48,
Gichy Dan,
Groovy Waters,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
The Shadows of Knight,
The Jesus and Mary Chain,
Fluxion,
Scan 7,
Zapp,
The Fire Engines,
Marc Romboy vs. Booka Shade,
Ponytail,
The Barracudas,
Ultravox,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Second Layer,
Pet Shop Boys,
Youth Brigade,
The Count Five,
Massinfluence,
Faraquet,
Avey Tare's Slasher Flicks,
Sexual Harrassment,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
Sonic Youth,
Whodini,
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark,
Davy DMX,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Stetsasonic,
Delon & Dalcan,
Chris Corsano,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
The Zeros,
Laurel Aitken,
The Flesh Eaters,
Kings Of Tomorrow,
a-ha,
Kerri Chandler,
Soulsonic Force,
JFA,
Al Stewart,
Lyres,
Danielle Patucci,
Colin Newman,
Amazonics,
MC5,
Morten Harket,
Black Pus,
Crash Course in Science, Crash Course in Science, Crash Course in Science, Crash Course in Science.
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.