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 Zambia and from Tehran.
But I was there.
I was there in 1977.
I was there at the first Human League show in Sheffield.
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 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Spokane and Houston.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Sao Paulo 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 1976 at the first Buzzcocks practice in a loft in Bolton.
I was working on the snare 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 Amon Düül to the grunge kids.
I played it at the Spitz.
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 Soft Machine. All the underground hits.
All Qualms tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Country Teasers record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal dance hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying an arpeggiator and an organ and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Zeros record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a mellotron.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Prince Buster,
Trumans Water,
Bill Wells,
Archie Shepp,
The Martian,
Swell Maps,
Sexual Harrassment,
The Music Machine,
Aswad,
Sam Rivers,
Kerri Chandler,
Grandmaster Flash,
Crash Course in Science,
The Leaves,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
Josef K,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Jerry's Kids,
Sonny Sharrock,
Girls At Our Best!,
Animal Collective,
Throbbing Gristle,
Agitation Free,
Hoover,
Todd Rundgren,
The Velvet Underground,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Lalann,
Gerry Rafferty,
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band,
Kas Product,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
The Fortunes,
Vainqueur,
Crime,
Icehouse,
The Wake,
June of 44,
L. Decosne,
Jeff Mills,
Rhythm & Sound,
Colin Newman,
Joyce Sims,
Joensuu 1685,
Reuben Wilson,
Arthur Verocai,
T. Rex,
Bobby Sherman,
Pylon,
Glenn Branca,
Easy Going,
Second Layer,
Outsiders,
The Zeros,
Funkadelic,
Ohio Players,
Patti Smith,
Rapeman,
Eli Mardock,
Selector Dub Narcotic,
Marshall Jefferson, Marshall Jefferson, Marshall Jefferson, Marshall Jefferson.
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.