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 Brazil and from Cairo.
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 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Beijing and Columbus.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Beijing 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 1971 at the first Big Star practice in a loft in Memphis.
I was working on the harpsichord sounds with much patience.
I was there when Nile Rodgers 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 Roger Hodgson to the jazz kids.
I played it at Cafe Wha.
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 Mantronix. All the underground hits.
All Throbbing Gristle tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Tropical Tobacco 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 '50s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a rhodes and a sitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Zapp record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought a harpsichord.
I hear that you and your band have sold your harpsichord and bought a snare.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Schoolly D,
Letta Mbulu,
the Bar-Kays,
The Doors,
Wasted Youth,
Sandy B,
Rhythm & Sound,
Roy Ayers,
Bronski Beat,
John Foxx,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
Echo & the Bunnymen,
The Walker Brothers,
The Victims,
La Düsseldorf,
The Techniques,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Kerrie Biddell,
Japan,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Clear Light,
Average White Band,
Warsaw,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
The Offenders,
Cal Tjader,
The Busters,
Hoover,
Bluetip,
Jerry's Kids,
The Pretty Things,
Kas Product,
Godley & Creme,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
Tubeway Army,
Donald Byrd,
Moebius,
The Real Kids,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
Cheater Slicks,
Art Ensemble Of Chicago,
The Toasters,
Eden Ahbez,
Gerry Rafferty,
Boogie Down Productions,
the Sonics,
Flamin' Groovies,
Zero Boys,
Reagan Youth,
Al Stewart,
Althea and Donna,
Soul II Soul,
Kerri Chandler,
The Buckinghams,
Gastr Del Sol,
Scrapy,
Saccharine Trust,
Oppenheimer Analysis,
Zapp,
Kevin Saunderson,
Hasil Adkins,
Johnny Osbourne,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell, N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell, N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell, N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell.
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.