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 India and from Edmonton.
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 1968 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Beijing and Lille.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Philadelphia 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 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 Circle Jerks to the grime 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 The Jesus and Mary Chain. All the underground hits.
All Crooked Eye tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every the Association 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 '50s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying an arpeggiator and a harpsichord and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Rotary Connection record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a linndrum.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a rhodes.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Zero Boys,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
Jacob Miller,
Monolake,
Henry Cow,
Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx,
Lower 48,
Country Joe & The Fish,
Public Enemy,
The Gories,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
Traffic Nightmare,
The Litter,
The New Christs,
Bobby Womack,
Lindisfarne,
Mantronix,
Steve Hackett,
Eric B and Rakim,
Harry Pussy,
Boz Scaggs,
The Evens,
The Cure,
Average White Band,
Jesper Dahlback,
The Cramps,
Bad Manners,
Marmalade,
Yellowson,
Tommy Roe,
KRS-One,
Arab on Radar,
The Peanut Butter Conspiracy,
Iggy Pop,
X-Ray Spex,
Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane,
One Last Wish,
Black Bananas,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
Porter Ricks,
Second Layer,
Black Pus,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
Peter & Gordon,
Alphaville,
The Fire Engines,
MC5,
Slick Rick,
Animal Collective,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Outsiders,
Thinking Fellers Union Local 282,
cv313,
the Association,
Piero Umiliani,
Tubeway Army,
Can,
Tom Boy,
F. McDonald, F. McDonald, F. McDonald, F. McDonald.
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.