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 Kyrgyzstan and from Bremen.
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 1964 to 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Milan and Beijing.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Manchester 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 1968 at the first Bowie practice in a loft in Bromley.
I was working on the 808 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 Be Bop Deluxe to the disco kids.
I played it at the Astoria.
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 Doobie Brothers. All the underground hits.
All Jandek tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Roy Ayers 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 '50s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying an organ and an arpeggiator and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Negative Approach record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a linndrum.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a 808.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Schoolly D,
The Gories,
Livin' Joy,
Thompson Twins,
Brand Nubian,
Jerry's Kids,
The Standells,
Soft Machine,
Rites of Spring,
Sad Lovers and Giants,
Terrestrial Tones,
David Bowie,
Throbbing Gristle,
Jacob Miller,
The Monochrome Set,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
Visage,
MDC,
New Age Steppers,
Country Teasers,
Make Up,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
Aaron Thompson,
B.T. Express,
The Blues Magoos,
Gerry Rafferty,
Alice Coltrane,
Von Mondo,
Porter Ricks,
Underground Resistance,
Lower 48,
R.M.O.,
Technova,
Nils Olav,
Blancmange,
Derrick Morgan,
Excepter,
Minor Threat,
the Bar-Kays,
Vainqueur,
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
The Cramps,
Groovy Waters,
kango's stein massive,
Sun City Girls,
JFA,
Grandmaster Flash,
The J.B.'s,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
Das Ding,
Swell Maps,
The Invisible,
The Trojans,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
Model 500,
Ash Ra Tempel,
Dave Gahan,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band, The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band, The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band, The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band.
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.