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 Bahamas and from Winnipeg.
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 1963 to 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Portland and Bologna.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Taipei 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 1973 at the first Television practice in a loft in New York.
I was working on the spring reverb 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 Bauhaus to the jazz kids.
I played it at the Spitz.
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 Lafayette Afro Rock Band. All the underground hits.
All Funky Four + One tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel 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 '80s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a clarinet and a harpsichord and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Johnny Clarke record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a clarinet.
I hear that you and your band have sold your clarinet and bought a linndrum.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Curtis Mayfield,
The Motions,
FM Einheit,
Joe Finger,
Blake Baxter,
Camouflage,
Matthew Bourne,
Erykah Badu,
Tropical Tobacco,
Peter & Gordon,
Big Daddy Kane,
Lindisfarne,
Niagra,
Swans,
Rhythm & Sound,
Tomorrow,
Joe Smooth,
Anthony Braxton,
The Gladiators,
Oneida,
The Walker Brothers,
Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx,
Vainqueur,
Scratch Acid,
Visage,
The Golliwogs,
Porter Ricks,
Janne Schatter,
The Saints,
The Happenings,
Dark Day,
Warren Ellis,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
Chris & Cosey,
Schoolly D,
Popol Vuh,
A Flock of Seagulls,
Subhumans,
The Fire Engines,
The Jesus and Mary Chain,
Crash Course in Science,
Dawn Penn,
The Young Rascals,
Minutemen,
Main Source,
Jandek,
Wire,
Black Moon,
T. Rex,
Smog,
Whodini,
Joy Division,
Soulsonic Force,
Young Marble Giants,
John Cale,
The Slits,
Isaac Hayes,
Zapp,
Lebanon Hanover,
The Leaves,
Dorothy Ashby,
Brothers Johnson,
The United States of America, The United States of America, The United States of America, The United States of America.
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.