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 Australia and from Madrid.
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 1964 to 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Portland and Bremen.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Mumbai 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 Audionom to the punk kids.
I played it at the Crocodile.
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 Massinfluence. All the underground hits.
All Magma tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Minutemen record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grunge 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 harpsichord and a sitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Zapp record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your güiro and bought an arpeggiator.
I hear that you and your band have sold your arpeggiator and bought a güiro.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Babytalk,
Amon Düül,
Andrew Hill,
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark,
Animal Collective,
Pet Shop Boys,
Negative Approach,
Robert Görl,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
Sound Behaviour,
The Real Kids,
Popol Vuh,
Boredoms,
Q65,
The Velvet Underground,
Average White Band,
Lower 48,
James Chance & The Contortions,
Black Pus,
The Remains,
Stereo Dub,
Anthony Braxton,
World's Most,
Unwound,
The Stooges,
Ultra Naté,
a-ha,
Mars,
Skarface,
Aswad,
James White and The Blacks,
Little Man,
Althea and Donna,
Essential Logic,
Max Romeo,
Dave Gahan,
Rosa Yemen,
Joy Division,
Bobby Sherman,
DJ Sneak,
The Fall,
Symarip,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
Soft Cell,
The Grass Roots,
The Barracudas,
Toni Rubio,
Robert Hood,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Schoolly D,
Bill Wells,
Surgeon,
DJ Style,
Soft Machine,
The Skatalites,
Quando Quango,
the Soft Cell,
June Days, June Days, June Days, June Days.
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.