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 Singapore and from Mumbai.
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 1960 to 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Lille and Salvador.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Milan 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 1980 at the first Cybotron practice in a loft in Detroit.
I was working on the mellotron 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 Susan Cadogan to the dance 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 8 Eyed Spy. All the underground hits.
All Lizzy Mercier Descloux tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Schoolly D record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal jazz hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a sitar and an organ and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Mary Jane Girls 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?
Skarface,
The Associates,
Public Image Ltd.,
Young Marble Giants,
Sight & Sound,
Silicon Teens,
Bronski Beat,
U.S. Maple,
Godley & Creme,
Archie Shepp,
Kango’s Stein Massive,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
Deadbeat,
Glenn Branca,
The Mojo Men,
Jawbox,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
John Cale,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
Zero Boys,
The Selecter,
New Order,
Sonny Sharrock,
Yusef Lateef,
Ornette Coleman,
Khruangbin,
Moebius,
Gang Green,
Gichy Dan,
Art Ensemble Of Chicago,
The Remains,
Carl Craig,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
Sunsets and Hearts,
The United States of America,
Avey Tare's Slasher Flicks,
Sad Lovers and Giants,
Isaac Hayes,
The Beau Brummels,
the Human League,
Black Sheep,
Gong,
Japan,
Jacob Miller,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
Tears for Fears,
Pantaleimon,
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band,
The Fugs,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
Bobby Hutcherson,
The Mummies,
the Slits,
Crash Course in Science,
The Stooges,
OOIOO,
Pagans,
Magazine,
The Divine Comedy,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
Model 500,
Malaria!,
Lakeside, Lakeside, Lakeside, Lakeside.
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.