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 Taiwan and from Manila.
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 1960 to 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Houston and Hong Kong.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Bremen 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 Lou Reed 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 Moss Icon to the dance kids.
I played it at the Troubador.
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 Duran Duran. All the underground hits.
All Saccharine Trust tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Pantaleimon record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal punk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a rhodes and a spring reverb and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Boogie Down Productions record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your arpeggiator and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought an arpeggiator.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Red Krayola,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
Parry Music,
Unwound,
Chrome,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
Stereo Dub,
The Happenings,
Amon Düül II,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
Marshall Jefferson,
L. Decosne,
David Axelrod,
Japan,
Moss Icon,
Letta Mbulu,
Aswad,
Zero Boys,
Von Mondo,
Shoche,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Bobby Byrd,
UT,
Monks,
Michelle Simonal,
Grandmaster Flash,
Strawberry Alarm Clock,
The Residents,
Agent Orange,
Gil Scott Heron,
Quantec,
Marcia Griffiths,
Infiniti,
Crime,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Delon & Dalcan,
The Barracudas,
Connie Case,
Teenage Jesus and the Jerks,
Groovy Waters,
Jimmy McGriff,
Make Up,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Loose Ends,
The Young Rascals,
Kenny Larkin,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
Kings Of Tomorrow,
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
Grey Daturas,
Scratch Acid,
The Fall,
Man Parrish,
Joey Negro,
a-ha,
Amon Düül,
Erasure,
Scrapy,
The Motions,
Kerrie Biddell,
ABC,
The Gladiators,
MC5,
Jerry's Kids, Jerry's Kids, Jerry's Kids, Jerry's Kids.
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.