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 South Africa and from Tehran.
But I was there.
I was there in 1976.
I was there at the first Wire show in Watford.
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 1969 to 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Portland and New York.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Philadelphia 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 1980 at the first Cybotron practice in a loft in Detroit.
I was working on the chamberlin 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 Zapp to the rock kids.
I played it at CBGB's.
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 Moebius. All the underground hits.
All The Pretty Things tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Outsiders record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal funk 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 marimba and a 808 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 spring reverb and bought a sitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a spring reverb.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Anakelly,
Sarah Menescal,
Mandrill,
Ludus,
Curtis Mayfield,
Visage,
Bronski Beat,
The Leaves,
Fela Kuti,
Unrelated Segments,
Oppenheimer Analysis,
B.T. Express,
Faraquet,
The Searchers,
The Fall,
Lungfish,
Monolake,
Schoolly D,
Erykah Badu,
Alison Limerick,
Public Enemy,
Yaz,
Dorothy Ashby,
The Happenings,
The Wake,
Jimmy McGriff,
Sun Ra,
This Heat,
Aaron Thompson,
The Cramps,
Fat Boys,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
Accadde A,
Arcadia,
John Lydon,
Dual Sessions,
Cameo,
The Gun Club,
Morten Harket,
Rod Modell,
Newcleus,
Roy Ayers,
Eli Mardock,
Roy Ayers Ubiquity,
The Techniques,
The Electric Prunes,
The Shadows of Knight,
Joey Negro,
Carl Craig,
The Grass Roots,
X-101,
Lyres,
Delta 5,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
Sandy B,
Altered Images,
Fad Gadget,
The Durutti Column,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
The Vogues,
Isaac Hayes,
Kas Product, Kas Product, Kas Product, Kas Product.
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.