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 St Lucia and from Stockholm.
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 1962 to 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Calgary and Shanghai.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Tehran 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 1984 at the first Arcadia practice in a loft in London.
I was working on the snare sounds with much patience.
I was there when David Bowie 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 Nico 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 Main Source. All the underground hits.
All The Residents tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Sandy B record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rap 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 an oboe and a harpsichord and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a rhodes.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a chamberlin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Anakelly,
June Days,
Vainqueur,
MDC,
Organ,
Jimmy McGriff,
Roy Ayers Ubiquity,
The Moody Blues,
The Index,
Anthony Braxton,
Angry Samoans,
The Velvet Underground,
Echo & the Bunnymen,
The Human League,
Archie Shepp,
Goldenarms,
The Names,
The Jesus and Mary Chain,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
Metal Thangz,
Lindisfarne,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
Sunsets and Hearts,
Crooked Eye,
Grandmaster Flash,
Robert Wyatt,
Sun City Girls,
Big Daddy Kane,
Essential Logic,
Lalann,
Ornette Coleman,
Grauzone,
B.T. Express,
Bootsy Collins,
Marc Romboy vs. Booka Shade,
Massinfluence,
Jandek,
The Buckinghams,
Roxy Music,
DJ Sneak,
Soul Sonic Force,
Nation of Ulysses,
Gian Franco Pienzio,
Lungfish,
Ultimate Spinach,
Matthew Bourne,
Au Pairs,
Kas Product,
CMW,
Stereo Dub,
The Fortunes,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
Agitation Free,
The Happenings,
Tropical Tobacco,
The Leaves,
The Men They Couldn't Hang,
Nick Fraelich,
The Doobie Brothers,
The Martian,
Blake Baxter,
The Sonics, The Sonics, The Sonics, The Sonics.
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.