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 Georgia and from Taipei.
But I was there.
I was there in 1983.
I was there at the first Art of Noise show in London.
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 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Milan and Calgary.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Columbus 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 spring reverb 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 Niagra 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 Q and Not U. All the underground hits.
All Neil Young tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Leonard Cohen record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal punk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a snare and a harpsichord and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Gichy Dan record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a rhodes.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a linndrum.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Teenage Jesus and the Jerks,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
Sam Rivers,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
Nils Olav,
Max Romeo,
Delon & Dalcan,
Henry Cow,
Lucky Dragons,
Flash Fearless,
Sun Ra,
Camberwell Now,
Shoche,
Bob Dylan,
Fat Boys,
James Chance & The Contortions,
The American Breed,
Frankie Knuckles,
Marine Girls,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Jerry Gold Smith,
The Trojans,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
Shuggie Otis,
Mr. Review,
Radiopuhelimet,
Khruangbin,
La Düsseldorf,
Saccharine Trust,
Gang Green,
Kerrie Biddell,
The Happenings,
Tim Buckley,
Main Source,
The Saints,
Blake Baxter,
The Pop Group,
Make Up,
Altered Images,
cv313,
Dave Gahan,
The Knickerbockers,
Quadrant,
Crispian St. Peters,
Maurizio,
The Gories,
Black Flag,
Average White Band,
Funkadelic,
Minnie Riperton,
Loose Ends,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
EPMD,
A Flock of Seagulls,
Grey Daturas,
The Vogues,
Red Lorry Yellow Lorry,
Ornette Coleman,
Alton Ellis, Alton Ellis, Alton Ellis, Alton Ellis.
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.