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 Jamaica and from Lille.
But I was there.
I was there in 1971.
I was there at the first Neu! show in Düsseldorf.
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 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Lagos and London.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Taipei 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 Nile Rodgers 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 Marshall Jefferson to the dance 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 The Zeros. All the underground hits.
All Traffic Nightmare tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Zapp record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal dance 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 clarinet and a synthesizer and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Eli Mardock record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a theremin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a spring reverb.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Archie Shepp,
Absolute Body Control,
Kas Product,
ABC,
Funkadelic,
Flipper,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Marc Romboy vs. Booka Shade,
Avey Tare,
E-Dancer,
Radiohead,
Josef K,
Lou Reed,
The Grass Roots,
Moebius,
Agitation Free,
The Count Five,
Cabaret Voltaire,
Bobby Sherman,
Tom Boy,
Matthew Halsall,
The Techniques,
Avey Tare's Slasher Flicks,
Alison Limerick,
Urselle,
Ohio Players,
Clear Light,
the Germs,
Grandmaster Flash,
Ituana,
Warsaw,
Deepchord,
Lee Hazlewood,
Sun City Girls,
The Monochrome Set,
Isaac Hayes,
One Last Wish,
Wally Richardson,
The Gun Club,
Gang Starr,
Sonic Youth,
The Busters,
Ken Boothe,
Darondo,
Flash Fearless,
The Standells,
Gastr Del Sol,
Ossler,
Zero Boys,
Tubeway Army,
Cheater Slicks,
Derrick May,
Freddie Wadling,
Ponytail,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
Brick,
Skaos,
Aloha Tigers,
Pantaleimon,
Robert Görl,
the Normal,
Steve Hackett,
New York Dolls, New York Dolls, New York Dolls, New York Dolls.
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.