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 Kosovo and from Manila.
But I was there.
I was there in 1976.
I was there at the first Wire show in Watford.
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 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Taipei and Mexico City.
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 arpeggiator 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 Todd Rundgren to the dance 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 The Trojans. All the underground hits.
All Louis and Bebe Barron tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Techniques record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rock 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 an arpeggiator and a mellotron and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Roy Ayers record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a mellotron.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a sitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Rosa Yemen,
Schoolly D,
Outsiders,
Barclay James Harvest,
Ossler,
Scion,
UT,
the Bar-Kays,
PIL,
Johnny Clarke,
The Slackers,
Bluetip,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Lalo Schifrin,
Amazonics,
The Motions,
Minutemen,
The Shadows of Knight,
The Tremeloes,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
The Electric Prunes,
Aloha Tigers,
Bootsy Collins,
Popol Vuh,
Gastr Del Sol,
These Immortal Souls,
Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane,
Yusef Lateef,
Monolake,
Andrew Hill,
Barry Ungar,
Strawberry Alarm Clock,
Con Funk Shun,
Half Japanese,
the Soft Cell,
Mary Jane Girls,
Aswad,
The Leaves,
Roy Ayers,
JFA,
Joensuu 1685,
The Busters,
Crooked Eye,
Moss Icon,
Stetsasonic,
Carl Craig,
Niagra,
Scratch Acid,
Deakin,
Fifty Foot Hose,
The Monochrome Set,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
Pere Ubu,
the Human League,
Tropical Tobacco,
Von Mondo,
KRS-One,
Parry Music,
Rhythm & Sound,
Fela Kuti,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
The Names,
10cc, 10cc, 10cc, 10cc.
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.