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 Bosnia Herzegovina and from Bremen.
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 1967 to 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Winnipeg and Mumbai.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Tokyo 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 harpsichord 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 Erykah Badu to the rap kids.
I played it at CBGB's.
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 Thompson Twins. All the underground hits.
All Sparks tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel 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 '80s.
I hear you're buying a harpsichord and an oboe and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Lucky Dragons record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a linndrum.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Gerry Rafferty,
Lee Hazlewood,
The Gap Band,
Angels of Light & Akron/Family,
The Gories,
The Fire Engines,
The Smoke,
Mandrill,
Marc Almond,
Black Bananas,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
the Association,
John Holt,
The Slackers,
Pussy Galore,
Freddie Wadling,
Eric Dolphy,
Silicon Teens,
Half Japanese,
Cabaret Voltaire,
Massinfluence,
The Five Americans,
Black Pus,
Lucky Dragons,
Motorama,
Erasure,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
A Certain Ratio,
Kayak,
The Litter,
Morten Harket,
The Black Dice,
The Flesh Eaters,
Chris & Cosey,
Black Flag,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
Yusef Lateef,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
Mantronix,
Soul II Soul,
Pharoah Sanders,
Jesper Dahlback,
New Order,
Isaac Hayes,
Skaos,
Second Layer,
T. Rex,
Mr. Review,
Rhythm & Sound,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
Brand Nubian,
The Remains,
Suburban Knight,
Sight & Sound,
Echospace,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
Kango’s Stein Massive,
Joensuu 1685,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
Tom Boy,
KRS-One, KRS-One, KRS-One, KRS-One.
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.