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 Ghana and from Woodstock.
But I was there.
I was there in 1975.
I was there at the first Throbbing Gristle show in London.
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 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Woodstock and Mexico City.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Lagos 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 rhodes sounds with much patience.
I was there when Robert Palmer 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 B.T. Express to the dance 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 Delon & Dalcan. All the underground hits.
All Symarip tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Gichy Dan 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 '50s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a clarinet and a mellotron and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Rotary Connection record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a rhodes.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought an oboe.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
Gil Scott Heron,
Hasil Adkins,
The Mojo Men,
Nik Kershaw,
The Misunderstood,
Shuggie Otis,
Goldenarms,
Spoonie Gee,
Louis and Bebe Barron,
Quadrant,
Hot Snakes,
Groovy Waters,
Altered Images,
The Cure,
Ponytail,
Sonic Youth,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Amon Düül II,
Yellowson,
Toni Rubio,
Index,
Eddi Front,
Janne Schatter,
Reuben Wilson,
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark,
Bad Manners,
Loose Ends,
Roy Ayers Ubiquity,
Cal Tjader,
Cymande,
Eli Mardock,
Make Up,
The Birthday Party,
Jeff Mills,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
Kool Moe Dee,
Cybotron,
The Victims,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
H. Thieme,
The Fall,
Technova,
Lungfish,
Bill Near,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
Judy Mowatt,
Terrestrial Tones,
Bobby Hutcherson,
Alice Coltrane,
The Fuzztones,
The Electric Prunes,
Kayak,
Sun City Girls,
Dead Boys,
Cabaret Voltaire,
The Moody Blues,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
The Busters,
Ash Ra Tempel,
The Young Rascals, The Young Rascals, The Young Rascals, The Young Rascals.
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.