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 South Sudan and from Toronto.
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 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Glasgow and Bologna.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Delhi 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 Mistral practice in a loft in Amsterdam.
I was working on the arpeggiator sounds with much patience.
I was there when Lou Reed 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 Barry Ungar to the rock kids.
I played it at the 40 Watt.
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 Ultra Naté. All the underground hits.
All Bobby Womack tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Marshall Jefferson record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal techno hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a clarinet and a chamberlin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Rotary Connection record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your clarinet and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a clarinet.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Fad Gadget,
The Walker Brothers,
Faust,
Delon & Dalcan,
The United States of America,
The Pop Group,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark,
Cecil Taylor,
The Wake,
Das Ding,
The Toasters,
Patti Smith,
Royal Trux,
Rapeman,
Tommy Roe,
Todd Terry,
Shuggie Otis,
Vainqueur,
Steve Hackett,
Neil Young,
the Soft Cell,
The Sonics,
Wally Richardson,
The Moody Blues,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Angry Samoans,
Smog,
Kurtis Blow,
Toni Rubio,
Bobby Hutcherson,
Blancmange,
The Young Rascals,
Yusef Lateef,
The Cramps,
K-Klass,
Sam Rivers,
Juan Atkins,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
Ludus,
Glenn Branca,
MDC,
Nation of Ulysses,
Jandek,
Warren Ellis,
Dark Day,
La Düsseldorf,
DJ Sneak,
Jerry's Kids,
Fear,
Marshall Jefferson,
Lungfish,
Junior Murvin,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
Sexual Harrassment,
The Monochrome Set,
Tomorrow,
Ronnie Foster,
X-101,
Cluster,
EPMD, EPMD, EPMD, EPMD.
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.