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 Korea North and from Philadelphia.
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 1960 to 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Philadelphia and Philadelphia.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Lyon 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 1968 at the first Bowie practice in a loft in Bromley.
I was working on the güiro 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 Tom Boy to the dance kids.
I played it at the Spitz.
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 Lebanon Hanover. All the underground hits.
All The Zeros tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Pretty Things 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 '80s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a synthesizer and a mellotron and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Judy Mowatt record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a rhodes.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Alice Coltrane,
Negative Approach,
This Heat,
Tim Buckley,
Youth Brigade,
Flash Fearless,
Deepchord,
Dorothy Ashby,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
Q and Not U,
Alphaville,
Joey Negro,
Harry Pussy,
The Five Americans,
The Music Machine,
Selector Dub Narcotic,
Organ,
Radiohead,
The Smiths,
Fifty Foot Hose,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
Junior Murvin,
Sonic Youth,
Alison Limerick,
Michelle Simonal,
The Durutti Column,
The Sonics,
Angels of Light & Akron/Family,
Sun Ra,
Model 500,
Gong,
Marvin Gaye,
Joensuu 1685,
A Certain Ratio,
The Zeros,
Marshall Jefferson,
Anakelly,
Minny Pops,
The New Christs,
Swell Maps,
The Seeds,
Johnny Osbourne,
Soul Sonic Force,
Nico,
Blake Baxter,
Lindisfarne,
Audionom,
Larry & the Blue Notes,
Eric B and Rakim,
Todd Rundgren,
Drive Like Jehu,
Fluxion,
Maleditus Sound,
Q65,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
U.S. Maple,
Schoolly D,
Radiopuhelimet,
Dark Day,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
Harmonia,
Groovy Waters,
Pantytec,
Grandmaster Flash, Grandmaster Flash, Grandmaster Flash, Grandmaster Flash.
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.