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 Zimbabwe and from Tokyo.
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 1961 to 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Manchester and Jakarta.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Glasgow 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 clarinet 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 Jeff Mills to the grime kids.
I played it at Cafe Wha.
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 Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience. All the underground hits.
All Index tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Shadows of Knight 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 '60s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a sitar and a linndrum and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a X-102 record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a 808.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a linndrum.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
These Immortal Souls,
Bizarre Inc.,
Von Mondo,
Minor Threat,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Crash Course in Science,
Barclay James Harvest,
Quando Quango,
Trumans Water,
Gang Gang Dance,
The Cramps,
Porter Ricks,
Avey Tare,
Main Source,
The Leaves,
Brothers Johnson,
Funkadelic,
Ultravox,
The Fall,
Monolake,
Stockholm Monsters,
Beasts of Bourbon,
June Days,
Index,
The Happenings,
Oneida,
Crispy Ambulance,
The Knickerbockers,
Bootsy Collins,
The Kinks,
Bad Manners,
Spandau Ballet,
Metal Thangz,
The Monochrome Set,
Liaisons Dangereuses,
The Real Kids,
Masters at Work,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
Swell Maps,
Pharoah Sanders,
the Sonics,
Little Man,
Harry Pussy,
Nils Olav,
Symarip,
Toni Rubio,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
Swans,
Anakelly,
a-ha,
Half Japanese,
Byron Stingily,
Rod Modell,
Shoche,
Icehouse,
Joensuu 1685,
Loose Ends,
Lungfish,
The Velvet Underground,
Scratch Acid,
Joe Smooth,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Man Eating Sloth,
X-102, X-102, X-102, X-102.
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.