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 France and from Tehran.
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 1965 to 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Madrid and Madrid.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Johannesburg 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 1979 at the first Second Layer practice in a loft in South London.
I was working on the chamberlin 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 Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan to the punk kids.
I played it at Cafe Wha.
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 Todd Rundgren. All the underground hits.
All Ultravox tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Happenings 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 '90s.
I hear you're buying a clarinet and a güiro and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Hasil Adkins record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a güiro.
I hear that you and your band have sold your güiro and bought a rhodes.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Section 25,
Zero Boys,
Kurtis Blow,
Judy Mowatt,
Joey Negro,
Janne Schatter,
Mad Mike,
Maleditus Sound,
Rekid,
Bang On A Can,
The Saints,
The Red Krayola,
Fifty Foot Hose,
Ultimate Spinach,
Marcia Griffiths,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
Godley & Creme,
Outsiders,
Magazine,
Aswad,
Marine Girls,
Livin' Joy,
Tears for Fears,
Loose Ends,
Mandrill,
Suburban Knight,
Flipper,
Leonard Cohen,
Toni Rubio,
Charles Mingus,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
The Gladiators,
Glenn Branca,
Jimmy McGriff,
Deepchord,
Freddie Wadling,
Cal Tjader,
Eric B and Rakim,
Metal Thangz,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Guru Guru,
Soul Sonic Force,
Goldenarms,
Half Japanese,
Chrome,
Theoretical Girls,
Subhumans,
Jeff Lynne,
Delta 5,
Donald Byrd,
The Associates,
F. McDonald,
Circle Jerks,
Soft Cell,
The Seeds,
Porter Ricks,
Susan Cadogan,
ABBA,
Fort Wilson Riot,
Intrusion,
The Fortunes,
Ultra Naté, Ultra Naté, Ultra Naté, Ultra Naté.
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.