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 Comoros and from Seoul.
But I was there.
I was there in 1984.
I was there at the first Arcadia 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 1966 to 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Beijing and Accra.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Taipei 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 The Zeros to the disco kids.
I played it at the Crocodile.
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 Barbara Tucker. All the underground hits.
All Au Pairs tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Tommy Roe record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grunge 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 guitar and a linndrum and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Grey Daturas record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought a linndrum.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a snare.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Bill Near,
Black Pus,
Eli Mardock,
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
Young Marble Giants,
Masters at Work,
Matthew Bourne,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
Hot Snakes,
Terry Callier,
Rekid,
Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme,
Wolf Eyes,
cv313,
Traffic Nightmare,
PIL,
Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines,
Angels of Light & Akron/Family,
Gang Starr,
Judy Mowatt,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
Scan 7,
David Bowie,
The Real Kids,
L. Decosne,
EPMD,
Harmonia,
DJ Sneak,
ABC,
Rhythm & Sound,
The Shadows of Knight,
Wally Richardson,
Q and Not U,
Colin Newman,
Ituana,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Selector Dub Narcotic,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
Underground Resistance,
The Martian,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Minny Pops,
Main Source,
Echospace,
Black Flag,
Eyeless In Gaza,
Parry Music,
Man Eating Sloth,
Basic Channel,
The Flesh Eaters,
Rosa Yemen,
Ten City,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
Dark Day,
Alphaville,
Arab on Radar,
Thinking Fellers Union Local 282,
Jacob Miller,
Minor Threat,
Derrick Morgan,
Kayak, Kayak, Kayak, Kayak.
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.