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 Russia and from Milan.
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 1966 to 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Paris and Lyon.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Madrid 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 organ sounds with much patience.
I was there when Tom Verlaine 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 OOIOO to the techno kids.
I played it at Trash.
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 Whodini. All the underground hits.
All Charles Mingus tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Hashim 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 '80s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a mellotron and a linndrum and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Tubeway Army record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a 808.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a rhodes.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Talk Talk,
The Wake,
Darondo,
The Moody Blues,
The Smiths,
Brick,
Barbara Tucker,
The Mummies,
Louis and Bebe Barron,
Gang Gang Dance,
The New Christs,
Pere Ubu,
Camouflage,
the Swans,
Vladislav Delay,
Bobby Sherman,
Slick Rick,
The Doors,
Jacob Miller,
Big Daddy Kane,
Loose Ends,
Intrusion,
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
Ten City,
Eden Ahbez,
Country Joe & The Fish,
The Doobie Brothers,
U.S. Maple,
Franke,
This Heat,
Barrington Levy,
Sight & Sound,
T. Rex,
MC5,
Zapp,
China Crisis,
Wire,
PIL,
The Blackbyrds,
New Age Steppers,
Can,
The Cure,
Yaz,
Animal Collective,
Teenage Jesus and the Jerks,
Crime,
The Residents,
Drive Like Jehu,
the Association,
Jawbox,
Donald Byrd,
The Zeros,
Stetsasonic,
The Angels of Light,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
The Walker Brothers,
Make Up,
Lou Christie,
Boredoms,
Pulsallama,
Sällskapet,
Howard Jones,
Patti Smith, Patti Smith, Patti Smith, Patti Smith.
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.