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 Paraguay and from Glasgow.
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 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Tehran and Milan.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Copenhagen 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 at the first Suicide practice in a loft in New York.
I was working on the linndrum sounds with much patience.
I was there when Michael McDonald 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 The Toasters to the dance 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 Goldenarms. All the underground hits.
All Neil Young tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Hashim 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 '70s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a harpsichord and a 808 and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Offenders record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a sitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a theremin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Motorama,
Girls At Our Best!,
Minny Pops,
The Zeros,
Grey Daturas,
Avey Tare,
Pagans,
Bobby Womack,
UT,
Maurizio,
Animal Collective,
The Techniques,
Underground Resistance,
Junior Murvin,
In Retrospect,
Arthur Verocai,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Lindisfarne,
Colin Newman,
Ultra Naté,
Judy Mowatt,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
Crispian St. Peters,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
The Pop Group,
Marshall Jefferson,
Masters at Work,
Johnny Clarke,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Tears for Fears,
Derrick Morgan,
the Normal,
X-102,
Tommy Roe,
Banda Bassotti,
Radiopuhelimet,
Hashim,
Jandek,
Hasil Adkins,
Boz Scaggs,
Rakim,
Echospace,
Organ,
Model 500,
Jacob Miller,
Country Teasers,
Ohio Players,
Neil Young,
The Beau Brummels,
T.S.O.L.,
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark,
La Düsseldorf,
Youth Brigade,
Alison Limerick,
Fluxion,
Zero Boys,
Gian Franco Pienzio,
Intrusion,
Derrick May,
Gang Green,
The Leaves,
Vainqueur,
Second Layer,
Dark Day, Dark Day, Dark Day, Dark Day.
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.