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 Mongolia and from Manila.
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 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Paris and Shanghai.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Madrid 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 arpeggiator sounds with much patience.
I was there when Captain Beefheart 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 John Cale to the rap 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 Lou Reed & Metallica. All the underground hits.
All Soulsonic Force tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Detroit Cobras record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rock hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a linndrum and a marimba and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Cheater Slicks record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a linndrum.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
It's A Beautiful Day,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Average White Band,
Half Japanese,
kango's stein massive,
Art Ensemble Of Chicago,
R.M.O.,
Sight & Sound,
Technova,
Barclay James Harvest,
Brick,
Stockholm Monsters,
Throbbing Gristle,
Television Personalities,
The J.B.'s,
Arab on Radar,
Gregory Isaacs,
Wasted Youth,
the Sonics,
Lucky Dragons,
The Techniques,
The Peanut Butter Conspiracy,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
Cabaret Voltaire,
Talk Talk,
Ohio Players,
The Doobie Brothers,
Kayak,
Alison Limerick,
Sex Pistols,
Nik Kershaw,
The Neon Judgement,
Terrestrial Tones,
Ponytail,
Bizarre Inc.,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
10cc,
Depeche Mode,
Rakim,
UT,
Eric Copeland,
Kango’s Stein Massive,
Second Layer,
The Zeros,
Black Flag,
The Birthday Party,
Crime,
Laurel Aitken,
Liliput,
Livin' Joy,
Severed Heads,
James White and The Blacks,
Pantaleimon,
Sister Nancy,
PIL,
Liaisons Dangereuses,
The Moody Blues,
Subhumans,
Blancmange,
Neil Young,
Alton Ellis, Alton Ellis, Alton Ellis, Alton Ellis.
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.