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 Brunei and from Houston.
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 1963 to 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Tehran and Toronto.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Jakarta 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 1979 at the first Second Layer practice in a loft in South London.
I was working on the clarinet 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 The Sonics to the disco kids.
I played it at the Roxy.
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 Junior Murvin. All the underground hits.
All Sad Lovers and Giants tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Electric Light Orchestra record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal jazz hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a clarinet and a linndrum and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Selector Dub Narcotic record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a mellotron.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Negative Approach,
Jerry's Kids,
Brass Construction,
The Alarm Clocks,
Ohio Players,
Gang Green,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Heaven 17,
La Düsseldorf,
The Sonics,
Bobby Womack,
Ultra Naté,
Pet Shop Boys,
Grandmaster Flash,
Fugazi,
David Bowie,
Television,
Black Pus,
Eden Ahbez,
Steve Hackett,
Rod Modell,
Rekid,
Kaleidoscope,
The Grass Roots,
Sad Lovers and Giants,
Marine Girls,
Amon Düül,
Angry Samoans,
Country Joe & The Fish,
Al Stewart,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
The Fuzztones,
Peter & Gordon,
The Knickerbockers,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
Richard Hell and the Voidoids,
Robert Görl,
Jacob Miller,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
Black Flag,
June Days,
Lalann,
The Zeros,
Motorama,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Brothers Johnson,
Darondo,
Kevin Saunderson,
Josef K,
The Divine Comedy,
It's A Beautiful Day,
Mars,
Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
10cc,
Bobby Byrd,
Eric Copeland,
The Searchers,
Glambeats Corp.,
Kerri Chandler,
The Dead C,
Larry & the Blue Notes,
H. Thieme,
Section 25, Section 25, Section 25, Section 25.
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.