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 Tanzania 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 1969 to 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Houston and Jakarta.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Columbus 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 theremin sounds with much patience.
I was there when Michael McDonald 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 Alison Limerick to the dance kids.
I played it at the Crocodile.
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 Junior Murvin. All the underground hits.
All Ash Ra Tempel tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Radiohead 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 '70s.
I hear you're buying a marimba and a chamberlin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Larry & the Blue Notes record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a mellotron.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Japan,
Dawn Penn,
Slave,
Qualms,
cv313,
The Sonics,
Minnie Riperton,
Country Joe & The Fish,
Radiopuhelimet,
Technova,
Schoolly D,
CMW,
Au Pairs,
The Skatalites,
Wings,
Nirvana,
The Velvet Underground,
It's A Beautiful Day,
Bobbi Humphrey,
Eric Dolphy,
Donny Hathaway,
Ronan,
Robert Wyatt,
John Lydon,
Fad Gadget,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
Mars,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
The Mojo Men,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
Audionom,
Scott Walker,
Masters at Work,
Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft,
Pharoah Sanders,
Morten Harket,
Echo & the Bunnymen,
Michelle Simonal,
Barclay James Harvest,
Suburban Knight,
Mark Hollis,
Sound Behaviour,
Agent Orange,
Young Marble Giants,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
Intrusion,
Harry Pussy,
John Foxx,
Blossom Toes,
FM Einheit,
Neil Young,
B.T. Express,
The Gap Band,
Das Ding,
Richard Hell and the Voidoids,
Scratch Acid,
Country Teasers,
Kings Of Tomorrow,
The Fortunes,
The Doobie Brothers,
Stetsasonic,
Yaz,
The Stooges, The Stooges, The Stooges, The Stooges.
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.