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 Portugal and from Lille.
But I was there.
I was there in 1976.
I was there at the first Feelies show in Haledon.
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 Glasgow and Accra.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Milan 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 Zapp practice in a loft in Hamilton.
I was working on the harpsichord sounds with much patience.
I was there when Michael McDonald 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 Rapeman to the disco 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 OOIOO. All the underground hits.
All Faust tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Franke record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grime hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a sitar and an organ and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Ralphi Rosario record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a sitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a theremin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Lucky Dragons,
Adolescents,
Hardrive,
The Gap Band,
The Real Kids,
Eden Ahbez,
Crooked Eye,
It's A Beautiful Day,
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band,
Tim Buckley,
The Invisible,
Gang of Four,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
The Dave Clark Five,
EPMD,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
kango's stein massive,
Alphaville,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
The Durutti Column,
Delon & Dalcan,
Cheater Slicks,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
Toni Rubio,
Rekid,
Absolute Body Control,
Brick,
Throbbing Gristle,
The Cowsills,
Wolf Eyes,
Yaz,
Radio Birdman,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
Shoche,
Tommy Roe,
Easy Going,
Dave Gahan,
Kango’s Stein Massive,
The Doors,
Slave,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
World's Most,
Rapeman,
The Fuzztones,
Reuben Wilson,
Erykah Badu,
Cabaret Voltaire,
T.S.O.L.,
Lakeside,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
London Community Gospel Choir,
B.T. Express,
Isaac Hayes,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
Godley & Creme,
The Searchers,
Porter Ricks,
Donald Byrd,
Kool Moe Dee,
Average White Band,
Maurizio, Maurizio, Maurizio, Maurizio.
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.