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 Vietnam and from Salvador.
But I was there.
I was there in 1971.
I was there at the first Neu! show in Düsseldorf.
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 1964 to 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Shanghai and Houston.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Hong Kong 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 spring reverb 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 The Mummies to the punk kids.
I played it at the 40 Watt.
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 Ash Ra Tempel. All the underground hits.
All Stereo Dub tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Johnny Clarke 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 '80s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a chamberlin and a marimba and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Modern Lovers record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your organ and bought a clarinet.
I hear that you and your band have sold your clarinet and bought an organ.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane,
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark,
Junior Murvin,
Tres Demented,
Rosa Yemen,
The Selecter,
Aural Exciters,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Lebanon Hanover,
The Modern Lovers,
The Doors,
kango's stein massive,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
Camouflage,
Jeff Lynne,
Soul II Soul,
Parry Music,
Charles Mingus,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Max Romeo,
Sexual Harrassment,
Black Bananas,
Arab on Radar,
The Saints,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
Blake Baxter,
Marshall Jefferson,
Aaron Thompson,
Red Lorry Yellow Lorry,
the Swans,
Mark Hollis,
Q65,
PIL,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
Cybotron,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Goldenarms,
Black Flag,
Oneida,
It's A Beautiful Day,
Yellowson,
Faust,
Althea and Donna,
Basic Channel,
Crime,
Urselle,
Connie Case,
Sly & The Family Stone,
Eric B and Rakim,
Reagan Youth,
Section 25,
OOIOO,
Glambeats Corp.,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
The Grass Roots,
Rapeman,
Swell Maps,
The Seeds,
Index,
Pussy Galore,
Tubeway Army,
Matthew Halsall, Matthew Halsall, Matthew Halsall, Matthew Halsall.
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.