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 Morocco and from Bologna.
But I was there.
I was there in 1979.
I was there at the first Josef K show in Edinburgh.
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 1964 to 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Portland and Beijing.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Bremen 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 snare sounds with much patience.
I was there when Holger Czukay 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 Fugazi to the dance 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 Susan Cadogan. All the underground hits.
All Aural Exciters tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Mr. Review 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 '80s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a synthesizer and a rhodes and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Lou Christie record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought a 808.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a snare.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Monolake,
The Count Five,
The Men They Couldn't Hang,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Whodini,
Carl Craig,
Roy Ayers,
LL Cool J,
Connie Case,
Rod Modell,
the Fania All-Stars,
Fort Wilson Riot,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Brass Construction,
Laurel Aitken,
Bobbi Humphrey,
The Offenders,
Barclay James Harvest,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Inner City,
Television Personalities,
Can,
China Crisis,
Maurizio,
Larry & the Blue Notes,
Infiniti,
Unrelated Segments,
John Cale,
Amon Düül II,
Tubeway Army,
Q and Not U,
Echospace,
Tomorrow,
Deakin,
Bobby Byrd,
Ituana,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
Joensuu 1685,
Cameo,
Roy Ayers Ubiquity,
U.S. Maple,
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
Ash Ra Tempel,
The Angels of Light,
Fluxion,
Marshall Jefferson,
The Remains,
Q65,
Kaleidoscope,
Darondo,
Scion,
Amon Düül,
CMW,
Bobby Sherman,
Janne Schatter,
The Seeds,
Jesper Dahlback,
the Bar-Kays,
Henry Cow,
Wolf Eyes,
Pharoah Sanders,
D'Angelo, D'Angelo, D'Angelo, D'Angelo.
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.