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 Thailand 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 1967 to 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Jakarta and Lille.
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 1984 at the first Arcadia practice in a loft in London.
I was working on the marimba 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 The Count Five to the jazz kids.
I played it at Cafe Wha.
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 Liliput. All the underground hits.
All Minny Pops tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Busters record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rock hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a harpsichord and a marimba and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a spring reverb.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a 808.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Model 500,
Echospace,
Arab on Radar,
Aloha Tigers,
FM Einheit,
Wings,
Joensuu 1685,
The Music Machine,
Marvin Gaye,
Roxy Music,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
Byron Stingily,
Monolake,
Au Pairs,
Ornette Coleman,
The Human League,
Aaron Thompson,
Lebanon Hanover,
a-ha,
The Pop Group,
Soft Machine,
Mr. Review,
Robert Görl,
Kevin Saunderson,
Wasted Youth,
The Flesh Eaters,
Tom Boy,
Pere Ubu,
the Bar-Kays,
H. Thieme,
Gastr Del Sol,
Rufus Thomas,
Radio Birdman,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
Marc Romboy vs. Booka Shade,
Severed Heads,
Sun City Girls,
the Human League,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Public Image Ltd.,
The Pretty Things,
The Skatalites,
Lindisfarne,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
Black Pus,
Pagans,
Lalo Schifrin,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
Pylon,
Bad Manners,
Swans,
Sam Rivers,
The Last Poets,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
Sonic Youth,
The Index,
John Holt,
Bobby Womack, Bobby Womack, Bobby Womack, Bobby Womack.
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.