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 Ivory Coast and from Accra.
But I was there.
I was there in 1971.
I was there at the first Selda show in Istanbul.
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 1962 to 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Manila and Delhi.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Accra 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 808 sounds with much patience.
I was there when Robert Palmer 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 New Age Steppers to the funk kids.
I played it at the Troubador.
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 Mantronix. All the underground hits.
All Bronski Beat 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 electroclash hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a chamberlin and a marimba and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Vaughan Mason & Crew record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a snare.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought a theremin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Section 25,
Fugazi,
Electric Light Orchestra,
David McCallum,
Derrick Morgan,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
Funky Four + One,
Girls At Our Best!,
Hashim,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
The Names,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
Siglo XX,
Von Mondo,
Pylon,
Trumans Water,
Echospace,
Bobby Hutcherson,
The Dead C,
Minor Threat,
Adolescents,
Outsiders,
Deakin,
Goldenarms,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
X-102,
Roger Hodgson,
Gabor Szabo,
Eden Ahbez,
The Cramps,
Terry Callier,
Thee Headcoats,
Gerry Rafferty,
Rosa Yemen,
Marine Girls,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
The Saints,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
Tim Buckley,
Stockholm Monsters,
World's Most,
Inner City,
48th St. Collective,
DJ Style,
Kenny Larkin,
Radiopuhelimet,
Aural Exciters,
Quantec,
Peter and Kerry,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
Eurythmics,
Thompson Twins,
Robert Wyatt,
Prince Buster,
the Association,
Livin' Joy,
Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines,
Monolake,
Nils Olav,
Sex Pistols,
Sun Ra, Sun Ra, Sun Ra, Sun Ra.
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.