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 Mexico and from Milan.
But I was there.
I was there in 1978.
I was there at the first Visage show in London.
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 1963 to 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Beijing and Manila.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Tehran 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 marimba sounds with much patience.
I was there when Tom Verlaine 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 Soulsonic Force to the disco kids.
I played it at the Troubador.
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 cv313. All the underground hits.
All Pierre Henry tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Average White Band 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 oboe and a chamberlin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a June of 44 record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your clarinet and bought a chamberlin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a clarinet.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Guru Guru,
CMW,
Glambeats Corp.,
Rakim,
Scan 7,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
Black Flag,
The Count Five,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
Angry Samoans,
John Cale,
Jerry's Kids,
The Men They Couldn't Hang,
Underground Resistance,
Pole,
Crash Course in Science,
Piero Umiliani,
Johnny Clarke,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
China Crisis,
L. Decosne,
Darondo,
Lee Hazlewood,
Accadde A,
Flash Fearless,
Matthew Halsall,
Ituana,
Bad Manners,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
Jandek,
Ronnie Foster,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
The Toasters,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
Boogie Down Productions,
Skarface,
Dennis Brown,
Donny Hathaway,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
Q65,
Gong,
Bill Wells,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
These Immortal Souls,
The Raincoats,
The Sonics,
Terrestrial Tones,
Prince Buster,
The Cure,
Josef K,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Eddi Front,
Kerri Chandler,
Connie Case,
Michelle Simonal,
Mad Mike,
The Kinks,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
PIL,
London Community Gospel Choir,
Sparks,
Kas Product,
The Trojans,
The Monochrome Set,
Fort Wilson Riot, Fort Wilson Riot, Fort Wilson Riot, Fort Wilson Riot.
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.