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 El Salvador and from Houston.
But I was there.
I was there in 2001.
I was there at the first Tiga show in Montreal.
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 1966 to 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Spokane and Manila.
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 theremin sounds with much patience.
I was there when David Bowie 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 Sparks to the electroclash kids.
I played it at the Hacienda.
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 Au Pairs. All the underground hits.
All Jesper Dahlbäck tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Lafayette Afro Rock Band record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal funk 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 guitar and an organ and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Vaughan Mason & Crew record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your clarinet and bought an oboe.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a clarinet.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Zapp,
Electric Prunes,
ABC,
Hot Snakes,
Joyce Sims,
Skaos,
Young Marble Giants,
Infiniti,
Quadrant,
Eyeless In Gaza,
Tropical Tobacco,
Whodini,
Ossler,
Quando Quango,
Soulsonic Force,
Supertramp,
Brothers Johnson,
cv313,
a-ha,
Goldenarms,
Danielle Patucci,
Judy Mowatt,
Rhythm & Sound,
Radiopuhelimet,
Josef K,
Echospace,
Sound Behaviour,
Eli Mardock,
Pet Shop Boys,
The Raincoats,
Bill Wells,
Arab on Radar,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
The Red Krayola,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Franke,
Alton Ellis,
Aloha Tigers,
JFA,
Mad Mike,
Lalann,
Delon & Dalcan,
Matthew Halsall,
Subhumans,
The Durutti Column,
Bang On A Can,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Todd Terry,
Saccharine Trust,
Junior Murvin,
Sam Rivers,
X-102,
Vladislav Delay,
Nirvana,
Scott Walker,
the Germs,
Carl Craig,
Don Cherry,
The Cramps,
Accadde A,
Can,
Niagra,
kango's stein massive,
Ronnie Foster, Ronnie Foster, Ronnie Foster, Ronnie Foster.
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.