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 Serbia and from Bologna.
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 1961 to 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Salvador and Hong Kong.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Mexico City 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 güiro 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 Oblivians to the funk kids.
I played it at the Roxy.
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 Lungfish. All the underground hits.
All Gabor Szabo tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Amon Düül record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal jazz hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a synthesizer and an oboe and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Monochrome Set record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a theremin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a sitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Nik Kershaw,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
The Velvet Underground,
Radiopuhelimet,
Altered Images,
Ultravox,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
Idris Muhammad,
Marc Almond,
Thinking Fellers Union Local 282,
Joey Negro,
Hoover,
The J.B.'s,
Rites of Spring,
Piero Umiliani,
UT,
Lakeside,
Pere Ubu,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Davy DMX,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
Radiohead,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Niagra,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Ice-T,
The Doobie Brothers,
Cybotron,
The Saints,
the Sonics,
Henry Cow,
Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson,
Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme,
Moby Grape,
Bobby Sherman,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
Procol Harum,
The Gun Club,
The Beau Brummels,
Red Lorry Yellow Lorry,
This Heat,
Toni Rubio,
The Toasters,
The Knickerbockers,
Country Joe & The Fish,
Underground Resistance,
Blossom Toes,
Boogie Down Productions,
Negative Approach,
Pulsallama,
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band,
D'Angelo,
David Axelrod,
The Birthday Party,
Boz Scaggs,
Anakelly,
Dark Day,
Richard Hell and the Voidoids,
Ultra Naté,
Dave Gahan,
Crime,
Gong,
Amazonics,
Yusef Lateef, Yusef Lateef, Yusef Lateef, Yusef Lateef.
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.