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 Sweden and from Beijing.
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 1969 to 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Mumbai and Milan.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Seoul 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 oboe 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 Royal Family And The Poor to the jazz kids.
I played it at the Astoria.
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 The Gories. All the underground hits.
All Johnny Osbourne tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every EPMD 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 '60s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a güiro and a theremin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Matthew Bourne record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a chamberlin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a theremin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
China Crisis,
Roy Ayers Ubiquity,
Bauhaus,
The Buckinghams,
Shuggie Otis,
Vainqueur,
Scan 7,
The Golliwogs,
Nas,
This Heat,
Second Layer,
Lyres,
Radiopuhelimet,
The Victims,
Jacob Miller,
8 Eyed Spy,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
Barclay James Harvest,
Gang of Four,
kango's stein massive,
Pharoah Sanders,
The Slackers,
Charles Mingus,
Marc Almond,
Television Personalities,
Graham Central Station,
The Young Rascals,
Dave Gahan,
Eddi Front,
Prince Buster,
Minny Pops,
Gang Starr,
The Blues Magoos,
Brothers Johnson,
Pet Shop Boys,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Lakeside,
Lindisfarne,
Guru Guru,
The Jesus and Mary Chain,
Parry Music,
Terry Callier,
ABBA,
Soft Machine,
The Gap Band,
Urselle,
Soft Cell,
Basic Channel,
Electric Prunes,
Procol Harum,
Tommy Roe,
Blancmange,
the Normal,
Iggy Pop,
Pantaleimon,
Jesper Dahlback,
Ronan,
The Motions,
Selector Dub Narcotic,
Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines,
Slick Rick,
The Sound,
Eli Mardock,
Index, Index, Index, Index.
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.