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 Liechtenstein and from Toronto.
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 1967 to 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Winnipeg and Houston.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Accra 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 1978 at the first Visage practice in a loft in London.
I was working on the synthesizer 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 Agitation Free to the rock kids.
I played it at the Spitz.
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 World's Most. All the underground hits.
All Hardrive tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Eric Copeland record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grime hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a guitar and an oboe and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Manfred Mann's Earth Band record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your harpsichord and bought a chamberlin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a harpsichord.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Fugazi,
Donny Hathaway,
John Lydon,
The Birthday Party,
Mantronix,
Scion,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
The Litter,
Easy Going,
Boogie Down Productions,
World's Most,
Graham Central Station,
Liliput,
Eric Copeland,
Al Stewart,
Zero Boys,
Roxette,
Sun Ra,
Von Mondo,
Bad Manners,
Panda Bear,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
Ituana,
Dual Sessions,
A Certain Ratio,
The Gladiators,
The Slackers,
Yaz,
Lou Christie,
Masters at Work,
The Moody Blues,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
Bill Near,
Lebanon Hanover,
Agitation Free,
Shuggie Otis,
Eden Ahbez,
R.M.O.,
Nick Fraelich,
The Residents,
Max Romeo,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
Teenage Jesus and the Jerks,
Delon & Dalcan,
Au Pairs,
K-Klass,
The Monochrome Set,
Kenny Larkin,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Metal Thangz,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
The Men They Couldn't Hang,
the Human League,
Ice-T,
Robert Hood,
Pylon,
Faraquet,
Ash Ra Tempel,
The Modern Lovers,
Marcia Griffiths,
Pussy Galore,
Piero Umiliani, Piero Umiliani, Piero Umiliani, Piero Umiliani.
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.