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 Peru and from Seoul.
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 1966 to 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Mexico City and Lagos.
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 sitar sounds with much patience.
I was there when Captain Beefheart 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 Royal Trux to the techno kids.
I played it at the Spitz.
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 Arab on Radar. All the underground hits.
All Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Thompson Twins record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grunge hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a spring reverb and a synthesizer and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Derrick May record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a theremin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Sugar Minott,
The Blackbyrds,
Wire,
Barrington Levy,
The Busters,
Yusef Lateef,
Anthony Braxton,
Banda Bassotti,
Echo & the Bunnymen,
ABC,
Glambeats Corp.,
Soul II Soul,
Joy Division,
New Age Steppers,
Piero Umiliani,
Danielle Patucci,
Popol Vuh,
Malaria!,
The Mummies,
Minutemen,
Gregory Isaacs,
The Human League,
Boz Scaggs,
Arab on Radar,
Gong,
Nils Olav,
Niagra,
Masters at Work,
the Fania All-Stars,
DJ Sneak,
Johnny Clarke,
MC5,
Hoover,
Johnny Osbourne,
Scan 7,
Q and Not U,
A Flock of Seagulls,
Wings,
Ohio Players,
Juan Atkins,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
H. Thieme,
Skriet,
Ice-T,
Wally Richardson,
Patti Smith,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Scientists,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
Al Stewart,
Neil Young,
Liliput,
DNA,
Gang of Four,
Echospace,
Ten City,
Flash Fearless,
The Evens,
The Pop Group,
Fear, Fear, Fear, Fear.
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.