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 Samoa and from Philadelphia.
But I was there.
I was there in 1983.
I was there at the first Lewis show in Vancouver.
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 1964 to 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Lagos and Glasgow.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Shanghai 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 guitar sounds with much patience.
I was there when Robert Palmer 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 Birthday Party 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 the Human League. All the underground hits.
All Todd Terry tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Gregory Isaacs 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 '60s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a mellotron and a synthesizer and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Slackers record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a 808.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Yazoo,
Bootsy Collins,
Jacques Brel,
Oblivians,
Aloha Tigers,
AZ,
Heaven 17,
The Moody Blues,
Barclay James Harvest,
Groovy Waters,
Fifty Foot Hose,
June Days,
The Electric Prunes,
The Real Kids,
T. Rex,
Babytalk,
Girls At Our Best!,
Essential Logic,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
MC5,
Yellowson,
Matthew Bourne,
Al Stewart,
Hardrive,
Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx,
R.M.O.,
Juan Atkins,
Erasure,
The Cure,
The Birthday Party,
Make Up,
Mission of Burma,
Soul Sonic Force,
Letta Mbulu,
8 Eyed Spy,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
Q and Not U,
Von Mondo,
Fluxion,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
David Axelrod,
The Gladiators,
Easy Going,
The Associates,
Sam Rivers,
Marcia Griffiths,
Kings Of Tomorrow,
Sly & The Family Stone,
Scott Walker,
The Slackers,
Symarip,
Piero Umiliani,
Country Joe & The Fish,
Black Flag,
Duran Duran,
the Soft Cell,
Funkadelic,
Cecil Taylor,
Pharoah Sanders,
Louis and Bebe Barron,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
Angels of Light & Akron/Family,
Gregory Isaacs,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam, Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam, Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam, Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam.
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.