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 Kiribati and from Lille.
But I was there.
I was there in 1975.
I was there at the first Ubu show in Cleveland.
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 1960 to 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Lille and London.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Lagos 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 linndrum sounds with much patience.
I was there when Michael McDonald 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 Pantytec to the rock 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 Notorious Big And Bone Thugs. All the underground hits.
All China Crisis tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Peter and Kerry 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 '70s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying an arpeggiator and a sitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Godley & Creme record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your güiro and bought an oboe.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a güiro.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
kango's stein massive,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
Ash Ra Tempel,
Bootsy's Rubber Band,
The Associates,
Soft Cell,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
The Standells,
B.T. Express,
Rotary Connection,
Fela Kuti,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
Reuben Wilson,
Can,
Zero Boys,
The Alarm Clocks,
Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson,
Skarface,
A Certain Ratio,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Graham Central Station,
Groovy Waters,
Deepchord,
10cc,
Qualms,
Lyres,
Drexciya,
Goldenarms,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
The Music Machine,
Popol Vuh,
Underground Resistance,
Warsaw,
Television,
Mandrill,
Jimmy McGriff,
Youth Brigade,
Echo & the Bunnymen,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Crispy Ambulance,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
Bauhaus,
Make Up,
Crime,
Cybotron,
Hardrive,
Gichy Dan,
The Knickerbockers,
Fear,
Bill Near,
Average White Band,
Radiohead,
Angry Samoans,
Ronan,
Gian Franco Pienzio,
Delon & Dalcan,
Severed Heads,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
The Motions,
Crash Course in Science,
Kurtis Blow,
Cal Tjader, Cal Tjader, Cal Tjader, Cal Tjader.
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.