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 Zimbabwe and from Taipei.
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 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in London and Portland.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Houston 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 Josef K practice in a loft in Edinburgh.
I was working on the mellotron sounds with much patience.
I was there when Donald Fagen 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 Gong to the disco kids.
I played it at Trash.
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 Deepchord. All the underground hits.
All Quando Quango tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every One Last Wish 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 '70s.
I hear you're buying a 808 and a snare and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Spandau Ballet record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a rhodes.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes 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?
Von Mondo,
Cal Tjader,
Anthony Braxton,
the Normal,
Vladislav Delay,
Soul Sonic Force,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Sound Behaviour,
Marshall Jefferson,
Amazonics,
Letta Mbulu,
The Human League,
Ponytail,
David Axelrod,
Beasts of Bourbon,
Alison Limerick,
Fear,
Amon Düül,
Camouflage,
Jacques Brel,
Duran Duran,
Lebanon Hanover,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
Glambeats Corp.,
June Days,
Marvin Gaye,
Bob Dylan,
Gastr Del Sol,
Joe Finger,
D'Angelo,
The Busters,
Lower 48,
L. Decosne,
Mark Hollis,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
Crash Course in Science,
Eden Ahbez,
Kevin Saunderson,
Ohio Players,
Pagans,
Reagan Youth,
Gabor Szabo,
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
Brothers Johnson,
B.T. Express,
Chrome,
Moebius,
Alice Coltrane,
Skriet,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
Deakin,
Harry Pussy,
The Residents,
The Count Five,
Outsiders,
Quantec,
Marmalade,
Pantaleimon,
Heaven 17,
Audionom,
Harpers Bizarre, Harpers Bizarre, Harpers Bizarre, Harpers Bizarre.
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.