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 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 1963 to 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Calgary and Stockholm.
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 Donald Fagen 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 Public Image Ltd. to the electroclash 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 Althea and Donna. All the underground hits.
All Echo & the Bunnymen tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Suburban Knight 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 synthesizer and a rhodes and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Amon Düül record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a spring reverb.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Joey Negro,
Fluxion,
Terry Callier,
Procol Harum,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
Das Ding,
a-ha,
Sugar Minott,
Average White Band,
Lalo Schifrin,
Monolake,
Japan,
the Bar-Kays,
Warren Ellis,
Sixth Finger,
La Düsseldorf,
The Mummies,
Roxy Music,
Scan 7,
Agent Orange,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Chris Corsano,
Gastr Del Sol,
Motorama,
Depeche Mode,
Dawn Penn,
Grey Daturas,
David Axelrod,
Symarip,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
OOIOO,
The Walker Brothers,
Amon Düül,
Man Eating Sloth,
The Golliwogs,
Cybotron,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
New York Dolls,
Outsiders,
Make Up,
Y Pants,
The Sonics,
Don Cherry,
Magma,
Ronan,
Trumans Water,
Sonny Sharrock,
Marmalade,
Basic Channel,
Rapeman,
Neil Young,
Bobby Womack,
Angels of Light & Akron/Family,
Lee Hazlewood,
The Pretty Things,
Oppenheimer Analysis,
Gabor Szabo,
Altered Images,
Carl Craig, Carl Craig, Carl Craig, Carl Craig.
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.