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 Italy and from Manila.
But I was there.
I was there in 1967.
I was there at the first Rodriguez show in Detroit.
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 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Houston and Mumbai.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Cairo 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 Mistral practice in a loft in Amsterdam.
I was working on the 808 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 Zapp to the rock kids.
I played it at Trash.
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 Banda Bassotti. All the underground hits.
All Motorama tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Q65 record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal crunk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a guitar and an organ and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Blackbyrds record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a snare.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought a 808.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Outsiders,
The Pop Group,
Guru Guru,
The Associates,
Amon Düül II,
Fela Kuti,
Siglo XX,
Smog,
The Happenings,
Boz Scaggs,
Lyres,
In Retrospect,
Sister Nancy,
Roxy Music,
Stetsasonic,
Matthew Bourne,
Kango’s Stein Massive,
Interpol,
Aswad,
UT,
Theoretical Girls,
The Gap Band,
EPMD,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
Brick,
Gerry Rafferty,
Country Teasers,
Ultra Naté,
The Motions,
Black Bananas,
Archie Shepp,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
ABC,
Bobby Hutcherson,
The Walker Brothers,
John Cale,
Boogie Down Productions,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
Ash Ra Tempel,
Agitation Free,
Joe Smooth,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
Brand Nubian,
Fort Wilson Riot,
Sällskapet,
Gabor Szabo,
the Swans,
Radiopuhelimet,
Cabaret Voltaire,
Ten City,
8 Eyed Spy,
Mr. Review,
Avey Tare,
Arthur Verocai,
John Lydon,
Art Ensemble Of Chicago,
The American Breed,
Soft Cell,
Television Personalities,
ABBA,
Pantytec, Pantytec, Pantytec, Pantytec.
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.