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 Finland 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 Houston and Bremen.
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 1984 at the first Arcadia practice in a loft in London.
I was working on the arpeggiator sounds with much patience.
I was there when Holger Czukay 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 Minutemen to the funk 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 Blossom Toes. All the underground hits.
All Organ tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Minutemen record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal funk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a snare and a güiro and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Rod Modell record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your güiro and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a güiro.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Dennis Brown,
The Misunderstood,
Rotary Connection,
Thee Headcoats,
Frankie Knuckles,
Wire,
Ossler,
Sister Nancy,
Easy Going,
The Moleskins,
Nirvana,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
Idris Muhammad,
Eurythmics,
The Residents,
Rites of Spring,
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band,
Bluetip,
The Searchers,
The American Breed,
Alice Coltrane,
Delta 5,
the Association,
Strawberry Alarm Clock,
The Monks,
Dorothy Ashby,
Cameo,
Jerry's Kids,
Model 500,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Howard Jones,
Sunsets and Hearts,
The Mojo Men,
Bob Dylan,
Derrick Morgan,
Simply Red,
Lower 48,
Buzzcocks,
Section 25,
Essential Logic,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
Robert Wyatt,
The Human League,
Donald Byrd,
Sight & Sound,
Eli Mardock,
The Gories,
The Shadows of Knight,
Soul II Soul,
London Community Gospel Choir,
Bill Wells,
Cabaret Voltaire,
KRS-One,
Youth Brigade,
The Pretty Things,
Eden Ahbez,
Beasts of Bourbon,
Arthur Verocai,
Gerry Rafferty, Gerry Rafferty, Gerry Rafferty, Gerry Rafferty.
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.