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 Iran 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 1960 to 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Philadelphia and Lyon.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Portland 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 Mistral practice in a loft in Amsterdam.
I was working on the linndrum 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 Tom Boy to the rap kids.
I played it at the Astoria.
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 Neil Young & Crazy Horse. All the underground hits.
All Sexual Harrassment tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Negative Approach record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal disco hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a güiro and a spring reverb and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Danielle Patucci record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought a 808.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a snare.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Sun City Girls,
The Pop Group,
Loose Ends,
Chrome,
Thompson Twins,
Erykah Badu,
Ralphi Rosario,
Wally Richardson,
Lebanon Hanover,
Ponytail,
Robert Wyatt,
Bronski Beat,
Blancmange,
Excepter,
Bauhaus,
Sandy B,
The Motions,
Amon Düül II,
Stereo Dub,
The Fortunes,
JFA,
The Toasters,
Urselle,
Isaac Hayes,
James White and The Blacks,
The Detroit Cobras,
The Selecter,
Au Pairs,
Banda Bassotti,
Tropical Tobacco,
Agitation Free,
The Jesus and Mary Chain,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Sixth Finger,
ABC,
Gang Gang Dance,
The Barracudas,
Harmonia,
Supertramp,
John Foxx,
This Heat,
Kerrie Biddell,
Be Bop Deluxe,
The Vogues,
Grey Daturas,
John Coltrane,
Deepchord,
Main Source,
Guru Guru,
the Swans,
Roxette,
The Pretty Things,
Khruangbin,
The Remains,
Kaleidoscope,
MDC,
Masters at Work,
One Last Wish,
Slick Rick,
The Sisters of Mercy,
OOIOO,
Kevin Saunderson,
Ice-T,
Malaria!, Malaria!, Malaria!, Malaria!.
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.