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 Mali and from New York.
But I was there.
I was there in 1971.
I was there at the first Selda show in Istanbul.
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 1962 to 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Manchester and Paris.
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 1977 at the first Zapp practice in a loft in Hamilton.
I was working on the marimba 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 Roxy Music to the rock kids.
I played it at the Roxy.
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 The Moody Blues. All the underground hits.
All Derrick May tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Loose Ends record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal jazz 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 theremin and a synthesizer and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Zeros record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a chamberlin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Victims,
Yaz,
Delon & Dalcan,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Sight & Sound,
Rapeman,
Cabaret Voltaire,
Magma,
Zero Boys,
Marshall Jefferson,
Jesper Dahlback,
Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme,
Average White Band,
The Kinks,
Nas,
Eddi Front,
James Chance & The Contortions,
Jerry's Kids,
Rites of Spring,
Flipper,
Suburban Knight,
The Angels of Light,
Matthew Halsall,
The Grass Roots,
Skarface,
Massinfluence,
Jacob Miller,
Terrestrial Tones,
Q65,
Kings Of Tomorrow,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
Deakin,
Slick Rick,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
Eden Ahbez,
Fluxion,
Loose Ends,
Lakeside,
Alton Ellis,
Clear Light,
Byron Stingily,
Judy Mowatt,
Mantronix,
Rekid,
Gregory Isaacs,
Youth Brigade,
Surgeon,
Nils Olav,
Kool Moe Dee,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
E-Dancer,
the Soft Cell,
Danielle Patucci,
Echospace,
Lebanon Hanover,
John Cale,
The Invisible,
Essential Logic,
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.