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 Czech Republic and from Lille.
But I was there.
I was there in 1977.
I was there at the first Zapp show in Hamilton.
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 Philadelphia and Stockholm.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Madrid 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 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 Harpers Bizarre to the rock kids.
I played it at the 40 Watt.
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 The Motions. All the underground hits.
All Bobby Hutcherson tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Bizarre Inc. record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal punk 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 a snare and a clarinet and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a chamberlin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a sitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Black Bananas,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
Kas Product,
The Pretty Things,
Laurel Aitken,
Be Bop Deluxe,
Echospace,
It's A Beautiful Day,
Nik Kershaw,
Schoolly D,
Lou Christie,
Fugazi,
The Walker Brothers,
Amazonics,
Jeff Mills,
Deakin,
Colin Newman,
the Association,
The Divine Comedy,
David Axelrod,
Bauhaus,
Spoonie Gee,
Mantronix,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
Drive Like Jehu,
Fear,
Camberwell Now,
Ponytail,
Sonic Youth,
China Crisis,
Roy Ayers,
Gang of Four,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
Sunsets and Hearts,
Jimmy McGriff,
Juan Atkins,
Susan Cadogan,
UT,
Goldenarms,
Brothers Johnson,
Brick,
The Modern Lovers,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
The Residents,
The Monochrome Set,
Grey Daturas,
Fort Wilson Riot,
Sällskapet,
The Selecter,
Lower 48,
The Smiths,
Pantaleimon,
Grauzone,
The Last Poets,
Sight & Sound,
Soul II Soul,
The Zeros,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
The Dead C,
Chrome,
A Flock of Seagulls, A Flock of Seagulls, A Flock of Seagulls, A Flock of Seagulls.
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.