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 Malawi and from Madrid.
But I was there.
I was there in 1987.
I was there at the first Nirvana show in Seattle.
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 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Milan and Paris.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Johannesburg 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 synthesizer sounds with much patience.
I was there when David Bowie 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 Skaos to the rap kids.
I played it at the Troubador.
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 Brothers Johnson. All the underground hits.
All Average White Band tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every June Days record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal dance 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 an organ and a guitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Eden Ahbez record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a spring reverb.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a linndrum.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Sällskapet,
the Swans,
The Happenings,
Eurythmics,
The Fall,
New Age Steppers,
Nick Fraelich,
Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx,
The Associates,
Don Cherry,
The Martian,
Public Image Ltd.,
Half Japanese,
Minor Threat,
Suicide,
The Grass Roots,
The Names,
Cameo,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
The Move,
Parry Music,
Sun Ra,
Alton Ellis,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Ornette Coleman,
Country Teasers,
Model 500,
Magma,
Eve St. Jones,
Nils Olav,
Gang Green,
Michelle Simonal,
The Moody Blues,
The Trojans,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
Sound Behaviour,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
John Lydon,
Lalann,
Bronski Beat,
CMW,
The Slackers,
Harmonia,
Ituana,
Flamin' Groovies,
Robert Görl,
Roy Ayers Ubiquity,
Anakelly,
The Knickerbockers,
DJ Sneak,
Crooked Eye,
David Bowie,
F. McDonald,
R.M.O.,
Sam Rivers,
Marine Girls,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
Porter Ricks,
Bauhaus,
The Gun Club,
EPMD, EPMD, EPMD, EPMD.
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.