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 the UAE and from London.
But I was there.
I was there in 1973.
I was there at the first Television show in New York.
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 1966 to 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Taipei and Milan.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Portland 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 snare sounds with much patience.
I was there when Captain Beefheart 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 Kerri Chandler to the funk kids.
I played it at the 40 Watt.
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 Swans. All the underground hits.
All Lyres tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Kerrie Biddell record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal crunk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a guitar and a chamberlin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Saccharine Trust record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a spring reverb.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a chamberlin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
Warsaw,
Bootsy's Rubber Band,
Cymande,
Fatback Band,
Bootsy Collins,
Sandy B,
Rotary Connection,
Mary Jane Girls,
D'Angelo,
Beasts of Bourbon,
Boredoms,
Prince Buster,
Matthew Halsall,
The Move,
Avey Tare's Slasher Flicks,
Joe Finger,
Man Parrish,
MC5,
Stereo Dub,
Whodini,
Davy DMX,
8 Eyed Spy,
Wings,
Minny Pops,
The Martian,
The Real Kids,
Lyres,
The Electric Prunes,
The Golliwogs,
Gang of Four,
Von Mondo,
Saccharine Trust,
Erasure,
Con Funk Shun,
The Standells,
The Residents,
Marmalade,
Echospace,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
Harmonia,
Freddie Wadling,
Wally Richardson,
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Anthony Braxton,
The Index,
the Sonics,
Bill Near,
Ten City,
Max Romeo,
Television Personalities,
Juan Atkins,
Moby Grape,
Funkadelic,
Robert Görl,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
Boogie Down Productions,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Scion,
Mark Hollis, Mark Hollis, Mark Hollis, Mark Hollis.
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.