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 Singapore and from Edmonton.
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 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Milan and Winnipeg.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Manila 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 spring reverb 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 Ultravox to the funk kids.
I played it at Cafe Wha.
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 Pylon. All the underground hits.
All Flash Fearless tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Sällskapet record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grunge hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying an organ and a rhodes and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Second Layer record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a 808.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Peter & Gordon,
Cymande,
Jacques Brel,
Rakim,
The Smoke,
Little Man,
Negative Approach,
Warren Ellis,
Cal Tjader,
The Blues Magoos,
UT,
Toni Rubio,
New Age Steppers,
Cheater Slicks,
ABBA,
Jandek,
E-Dancer,
The Raincoats,
London Community Gospel Choir,
Howard Jones,
Clear Light,
Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane,
Ituana,
DJ Sneak,
Basic Channel,
Letta Mbulu,
Goldenarms,
John Coltrane,
The Zeros,
Dave Gahan,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
Lungfish,
David McCallum,
Rapeman,
Skarface,
X-102,
Supertramp,
Soft Cell,
Lower 48,
The Mojo Men,
Rod Modell,
Bang On A Can,
Freddie Wadling,
Flipper,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Angels of Light & Akron/Family,
Vainqueur,
Soul Sonic Force,
Zapp,
Spandau Ballet,
Donny Hathaway,
Kas Product,
Procol Harum,
Yaz,
the Normal,
The Jesus and Mary Chain,
Nirvana,
Rotary Connection,
Lindisfarne,
Ultravox,
Derrick Morgan, Derrick Morgan, Derrick Morgan, Derrick Morgan.
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.