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 United Kingdom and from Madrid.
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 1966 to 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Stockholm and Manila.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Mumbai 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 1983 at the first Lewis practice in a loft in Vancouver.
I was working on the linndrum 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 Youth Brigade to the crunk kids.
I played it at the Roxy.
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 Public Enemy. All the underground hits.
All Joe Finger tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Peter and Kerry 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 an arpeggiator and a spring reverb 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 guitar and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Flamin' Groovies,
the Association,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
Liliput,
The Zeros,
Television Personalities,
The Buckinghams,
Rosa Yemen,
Pantytec,
Sex Pistols,
Shoche,
Talk Talk,
Sugar Minott,
Bootsy Collins,
Jeff Mills,
Au Pairs,
Kool Moe Dee,
Faust,
Mad Mike,
Theoretical Girls,
Marshall Jefferson,
Bad Manners,
Metal Thangz,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
Camberwell Now,
Porter Ricks,
Masters at Work,
Warren Ellis,
the Sonics,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
A Flock of Seagulls,
Lower 48,
Neu!,
Jimmy McGriff,
Blancmange,
Franke,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
the Normal,
Neil Young,
Radiohead,
JFA,
DJ Sneak,
Interpol,
Ituana,
Sunsets and Hearts,
The Seeds,
Johnny Clarke,
Arcadia,
Albert Ayler,
Ornette Coleman,
Rufus Thomas,
Siglo XX,
Gastr Del Sol,
Ken Boothe,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
Fort Wilson Riot,
Junior Murvin,
The Detroit Cobras,
The Associates,
Swell Maps,
Erasure,
Althea and Donna, Althea and Donna, Althea and Donna, Althea and Donna.
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.