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 Bulgaria and from Bremen.
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 1968 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Mumbai and Shanghai.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Calgary 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 1979 at the first Josef K practice in a loft in Edinburgh.
I was working on the güiro sounds with much patience.
I was there when Tom Verlaine 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 Saints to the grunge 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 Barclay James Harvest. All the underground hits.
All H. Thieme tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Monolake record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal jazz hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a harpsichord and a mellotron and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Black Dice record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a theremin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a mellotron.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Negative Approach,
Chrome,
The Tremeloes,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
B.T. Express,
Lower 48,
kango's stein massive,
Blossom Toes,
Malaria!,
Sun City Girls,
Arab on Radar,
Scrapy,
The Kinks,
FM Einheit,
The Cosmic Jokers,
Blancmange,
Be Bop Deluxe,
Pere Ubu,
The Vogues,
Infiniti,
The Red Krayola,
Urselle,
The Names,
Crash Course in Science,
The Shadows of Knight,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Wolf Eyes,
The Music Machine,
Zero Boys,
Marcia Griffiths,
The Remains,
Second Layer,
Radio Birdman,
Mandrill,
Swell Maps,
Idris Muhammad,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Niagra,
Soft Cell,
Q65,
Panda Bear,
Sugar Minott,
Kayak,
Vainqueur,
Gichy Dan,
The Stooges,
Roxette,
D'Angelo,
Gang Gang Dance,
Minor Threat,
Glambeats Corp.,
Yellowson,
Simply Red,
Wally Richardson,
Underground Resistance,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Kenny Larkin,
Lalo Schifrin,
the Association,
ABC,
Scion,
Yaz, Yaz, Yaz, Yaz.
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.