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 Morocco 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 1961 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Lille and Beijing.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Lagos 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 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 Pet Shop Boys to the disco 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 Gichy Dan. All the underground hits.
All Quadrant tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Seeds 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 linndrum and a rhodes and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a theremin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a spring reverb.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Ohio Players,
Panda Bear,
Deadbeat,
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Chris Corsano,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
Marvin Gaye,
Chris & Cosey,
Flamin' Groovies,
Quando Quango,
Quantec,
David Bowie,
T. Rex,
Oneida,
The United States of America,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Maurizio,
Be Bop Deluxe,
Joe Smooth,
Outsiders,
Jacob Miller,
Barrington Levy,
Sun City Girls,
Rosa Yemen,
Lucky Dragons,
Larry & the Blue Notes,
Scientists,
Skaos,
Tubeway Army,
Art Ensemble Of Chicago,
the Fania All-Stars,
The Blackbyrds,
Goldenarms,
Sun Ra,
X-102,
Colin Newman,
U.S. Maple,
Cymande,
Fatback Band,
Schoolly D,
Au Pairs,
Country Joe & The Fish,
the Normal,
Nirvana,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
Alison Limerick,
Roy Ayers Ubiquity,
Toni Rubio,
The Gap Band,
The Pop Group,
Throbbing Gristle,
The Selecter,
10cc,
Agitation Free,
Underground Resistance,
Blake Baxter,
Niagra,
Junior Murvin,
Quadrant,
Newcleus,
Eli Mardock,
Sex Pistols, Sex Pistols, Sex Pistols, Sex Pistols.
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.