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 Vietnam and from Delhi.
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 1963 to 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Columbus and Johannesburg.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Tehran 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 1971 at the first Selda practice in a loft in Istanbul.
I was working on the spring reverb sounds with much patience.
I was there when Michael McDonald 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 Human League to the disco kids.
I played it at CBGB's.
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 Slackers. All the underground hits.
All Black Bananas tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Louis and Bebe Barron record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal electroclash 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 an arpeggiator and a synthesizer and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Hasil Adkins record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a spring reverb.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought an oboe.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Ludus,
The Mighty Diamonds,
Rekid,
The Knickerbockers,
Khruangbin,
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
Ultravox,
The Count Five,
X-102,
Lakeside,
Rhythm & Sound,
Graham Central Station,
Outsiders,
The Gories,
Goldenarms,
Amon Düül,
Jimmy McGriff,
The Cosmic Jokers,
The Velvet Underground,
Main Source,
Fela Kuti,
Boredoms,
Clear Light,
Sound Behaviour,
Danielle Patucci,
The Angels of Light,
Technova,
Junior Murvin,
Althea and Donna,
Visage,
Deadbeat,
Babytalk,
Lungfish,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Eve St. Jones,
Andrew Hill,
Matthew Bourne,
Inner City,
Gabor Szabo,
Godley & Creme,
Bootsy Collins,
Trumans Water,
Derrick Morgan,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
Barclay James Harvest,
It's A Beautiful Day,
Black Sheep,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
Grauzone,
Fifty Foot Hose,
The Barracudas,
The Sonics,
Soulsonic Force,
Cal Tjader,
CMW,
Rapeman,
Johnny Clarke,
World's Most,
The Cowsills,
Public Image Ltd.,
Iggy Pop,
Lindisfarne,
Moss Icon, Moss Icon, Moss Icon, Moss Icon.
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.