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 Chile and from Jakarta.
But I was there.
I was there in 1978.
I was there at the first Visage 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 1961 to 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Beijing and Tokyo.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Spokane 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 linndrum sounds with much patience.
I was there when Robert Palmer 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 James White and The Blacks to the dance 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 Marmalade. All the underground hits.
All Peter and Kerry tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Joey Negro 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 '80s.
I hear you're buying a linndrum and an oboe and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Angels of Light & Akron/Family record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your marimba and bought a clarinet.
I hear that you and your band have sold your clarinet and bought a marimba.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Derrick Morgan,
Q65,
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band,
Rotary Connection,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Pagans,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Avey Tare,
Masters at Work,
Bobby Womack,
Boz Scaggs,
The Slits,
Stetsasonic,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
Whodini,
X-102,
Wings,
The Misunderstood,
Warren Ellis,
The Gories,
Porter Ricks,
Eyeless In Gaza,
John Cale,
The Last Poets,
The Walker Brothers,
Kango’s Stein Massive,
Marcia Griffiths,
Bobby Hutcherson,
James Chance & The Contortions,
Jandek,
Outsiders,
Gang of Four,
Marvin Gaye,
Louis and Bebe Barron,
Lightning Bolt,
Babytalk,
Au Pairs,
The Selecter,
Suburban Knight,
Barrington Levy,
Franke,
Gabor Szabo,
FM Einheit,
a-ha,
Matthew Halsall,
Das Ding,
Jeru the Damaja,
The Beau Brummels,
Yazoo,
Robert Görl,
The Evens,
Gian Franco Pienzio,
The Fire Engines,
Fluxion,
Gang Green,
Sad Lovers and Giants,
The Electric Prunes,
Grandmaster Flash,
Eden Ahbez,
Panda Bear,
Mantronix,
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
Trumans Water,
Fifty Foot Hose,
Harmonia, Harmonia, Harmonia, Harmonia.
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.