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 Sierra Leone and from Manila.
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 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Lyon and Jakarta.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Lille 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 1979 at the first Second Layer practice in a loft in South London.
I was working on the linndrum 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 The Cosmic Jokers to the jazz kids.
I played it at the Astoria.
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 D'Angelo. All the underground hits.
All Zapp tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Johnny Clarke record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal dance hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a theremin and a marimba and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Robert Görl record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a 808.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Shadows of Knight,
Fad Gadget,
The Standells,
Godley & Creme,
D'Angelo,
Arab on Radar,
Lou Christie,
ABBA,
Rotary Connection,
Country Joe & The Fish,
Derrick May,
London Community Gospel Choir,
Johnny Osbourne,
Joey Negro,
Gang Gang Dance,
Mark Hollis,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
MDC,
U.S. Maple,
Sam Rivers,
The Evens,
The Music Machine,
OOIOO,
Ralphi Rosario,
Severed Heads,
The United States of America,
Cecil Taylor,
Bobbi Humphrey,
Deakin,
Panda Bear,
Lindisfarne,
Shoche,
Stetsasonic,
Amon Düül II,
The Residents,
Gian Franco Pienzio,
Crispy Ambulance,
Urselle,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
Max Romeo,
La Düsseldorf,
Nas,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Soft Cell,
MC5,
Joensuu 1685,
X-101,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
Avey Tare,
Inner City,
Y Pants,
Crispian St. Peters,
The Gories,
Ohio Players,
Robert Hood,
Curtis Mayfield,
Susan Cadogan,
The Human League,
The Fire Engines,
The Gap Band,
Jacob Miller,
Eric Copeland,
Metal Thangz, Metal Thangz, Metal Thangz, Metal Thangz.
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.