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 Laos and from Mumbai.
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 1966 to 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Toronto and Taipei.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Sao Paulo 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 Human League practice in a loft in Sheffield.
I was working on the snare sounds with much patience.
I was there when Captain Beefheart 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 Joe Smooth to the dance 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 Joe Finger. All the underground hits.
All Wings tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Bill Wells record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal dance hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying an organ and an arpeggiator and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Guru Guru record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a clarinet.
I hear that you and your band have sold your clarinet and bought an oboe.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Eddi Front,
Yusef Lateef,
Andrew Hill,
Lalann,
Johnny Osbourne,
Warren Ellis,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
kango's stein massive,
Banda Bassotti,
Black Flag,
David McCallum,
Young Marble Giants,
Agent Orange,
Barclay James Harvest,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
Nick Fraelich,
Janne Schatter,
Angry Samoans,
The Blackbyrds,
Freddie Wadling,
The Associates,
Archie Shepp,
Joe Finger,
Spoonie Gee,
Chrome,
Stereo Dub,
Gang of Four,
Thompson Twins,
Marshall Jefferson,
Todd Rundgren,
Derrick May,
Porter Ricks,
Los Fastidios,
Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft,
Anakelly,
Sonic Youth,
Outsiders,
Altered Images,
The Neon Judgement,
The Knickerbockers,
John Cale,
La Düsseldorf,
The Cure,
Public Image Ltd.,
Bobby Sherman,
Tres Demented,
Absolute Body Control,
Joe Smooth,
Aural Exciters,
Eric B and Rakim,
The Black Dice,
Hardrive,
Black Sheep,
the Soft Cell,
Faraquet,
Pharoah Sanders,
Alton Ellis,
Dave Gahan,
Frankie Knuckles,
Country Teasers,
Gastr Del Sol,
Cecil Taylor,
The Birthday Party,
The Chocolate Watch Band, The Chocolate Watch Band, The Chocolate Watch Band, The Chocolate Watch Band.
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.