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 Croatia and from Lyon.
But I was there.
I was there in 1973.
I was there at the first Television show in New York.
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 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Cairo and Columbus.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Salvador 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 rhodes 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 Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra to the techno 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 Eddi Front. All the underground hits.
All Fear tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Sight & Sound record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal techno 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 a sitar and a clarinet and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Rotary Connection record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a 808.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Barclay James Harvest,
James White and The Blacks,
Black Pus,
Jawbox,
Quadrant,
Heaven 17,
Rites of Spring,
Fela Kuti,
Marcia Griffiths,
The Leaves,
Nas,
Mad Mike,
Chris & Cosey,
Amon Düül,
Amon Düül II,
Quando Quango,
ABC,
Neu!,
Sun City Girls,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
K-Klass,
Cecil Taylor,
Jacques Brel,
Johnny Osbourne,
Hardrive,
Tubeway Army,
Laurel Aitken,
The Pop Group,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
Arab on Radar,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
Section 25,
Juan Atkins,
Barrington Levy,
The Techniques,
Derrick May,
E-Dancer,
Wally Richardson,
China Crisis,
Motorama,
the Human League,
Mr. Review,
Stockholm Monsters,
Bootsy's Rubber Band,
Jerry Gold Smith,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Skriet,
Ultimate Spinach,
Leonard Cohen,
Whodini,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
Donny Hathaway,
Bad Manners,
D'Angelo,
Bizarre Inc.,
Larry & the Blue Notes,
Fear,
The Birthday Party,
Jerry's Kids,
Kings Of Tomorrow,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
Vainqueur, Vainqueur, Vainqueur, Vainqueur.
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.