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 Togo and from Woodstock.
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 Paris and Hong Kong.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Tehran 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 linndrum 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 Blake Baxter to the disco kids.
I played it at CBGB's.
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 Vaughan Mason & Crew. All the underground hits.
All 48th St. Collective tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every It's A Beautiful Day 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 '80s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a sitar and a guitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Dual Sessions record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your harpsichord and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a harpsichord.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Man Parrish,
It's A Beautiful Day,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
Dual Sessions,
Avey Tare's Slasher Flicks,
Selector Dub Narcotic,
kango's stein massive,
Lee Hazlewood,
Television Personalities,
A Flock of Seagulls,
Leonard Cohen,
The Move,
Marmalade,
Hoover,
Lalann,
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark,
Maleditus Sound,
Liliput,
The Sonics,
John Holt,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
Gang Green,
Inner City,
Cal Tjader,
Stetsasonic,
Archie Shepp,
Unwound,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
Ultimate Spinach,
Jeff Mills,
Sonic Youth,
Slave,
Connie Case,
Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme,
R.M.O.,
Kango’s Stein Massive,
The Durutti Column,
John Lydon,
Second Layer,
Quantec,
Isaac Hayes,
Nirvana,
8 Eyed Spy,
Lebanon Hanover,
Delta 5,
The Real Kids,
Brothers Johnson,
Black Bananas,
Mo-Dettes,
Flamin' Groovies,
Mad Mike,
MC5,
Ohio Players,
Outsiders,
The New Christs,
The Raincoats,
Whodini,
The Cramps,
Henry Cow,
Bush Tetras,
Vainqueur,
The Litter, The Litter, The Litter, The Litter.
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.