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 Korea North and from Copenhagen.
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 Lyon and Cairo.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Beijing 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 spring reverb sounds with much patience.
I was there when Lou Reed 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 Television Personalities to the grime 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 Schoolly D. All the underground hits.
All Black Sheep tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Angels of Light & Akron/Family 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 '80s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a synthesizer and an oboe and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Rufus Thomas record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a mellotron.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Zeros,
Negative Approach,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
Lalo Schifrin,
The Seeds,
Index,
Harpers Bizarre,
Metal Thangz,
Neil Young,
Oblivians,
Make Up,
The Human League,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
Piero Umiliani,
Adolescents,
Barrington Levy,
The Offenders,
Surgeon,
Eric B and Rakim,
Livin' Joy,
Massinfluence,
Mandrill,
The Barracudas,
Tom Boy,
Robert Wyatt,
Dual Sessions,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
Bronski Beat,
Hoover,
Monks,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Severed Heads,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
The Associates,
Grey Daturas,
Liliput,
Ohio Players,
Unrelated Segments,
Sex Pistols,
Mars,
Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme,
Terry Callier,
Louis and Bebe Barron,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
48th St. Collective,
Chris Corsano,
Swans,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
Pulsallama,
Bush Tetras,
Fat Boys,
Cybotron,
Gil Scott Heron,
Barry Ungar,
Ossler,
The Angels of Light,
The Gun Club,
Darondo,
Goldenarms,
The Real Kids,
Max Romeo,
Von Mondo, Von Mondo, Von Mondo, Von Mondo.
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.