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 Eritrea and from Johannesburg.
But I was there.
I was there in 1983.
I was there at the first Art of Noise 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 1967 to 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Lagos and New York.
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 1977 at the first Zapp practice in a loft in Hamilton.
I was working on the arpeggiator 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 Negative Approach to the electroclash kids.
I played it at Trash.
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 Thee Headcoats. All the underground hits.
All OOIOO tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Niagra record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal electroclash 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 a güiro and a theremin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Q and Not U record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a rhodes.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a 808.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Angry Samoans,
Fort Wilson Riot,
Panda Bear,
Kas Product,
The Busters,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
Mars,
Second Layer,
Barry Ungar,
Fear,
Fad Gadget,
Eric Dolphy,
Fluxion,
the Sonics,
Susan Cadogan,
Erasure,
The Selecter,
Technova,
Scrapy,
Al Stewart,
Section 25,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
Girls At Our Best!,
Warren Ellis,
Morten Harket,
Fifty Foot Hose,
a-ha,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
Crispy Ambulance,
The Fugs,
Sun Ra,
Rhythm & Sound,
Alison Limerick,
Fatback Band,
Symarip,
Metal Thangz,
Selector Dub Narcotic,
Organ,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Pole,
Magazine,
The Angels of Light,
Slick Rick,
Derrick Morgan,
Marcia Griffiths,
Anthony Braxton,
Buzzcocks,
Jandek,
Q65,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
The Blues Magoos,
Nick Fraelich,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Albert Ayler,
Ultimate Spinach,
D'Angelo,
Rapeman,
Banda Bassotti,
Letta Mbulu,
Grey Daturas,
DJ Sneak,
Neil Young,
La Düsseldorf,
Oneida, Oneida, Oneida, Oneida.
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.