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 Israel and from London.
But I was there.
I was there in 1971.
I was there at the first Selda show in Istanbul.
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 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Philadelphia and Mumbai.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Shanghai 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 1973 at the first Television practice in a loft in New York.
I was working on the güiro sounds with much patience.
I was there when Nile Rodgers 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 Mad Mike to the grime kids.
I played it at Trash.
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 Michelle Simonal. All the underground hits.
All Bauhaus tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every OOIOO record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rap hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a linndrum and a güiro and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Zeros record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a clarinet.
I hear that you and your band have sold your clarinet and bought a mellotron.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Judy Mowatt,
Heaven 17,
The Neon Judgement,
Ronnie Foster,
Morten Harket,
Technova,
Massinfluence,
Young Marble Giants,
Boogie Down Productions,
Chrome,
Second Layer,
Echo & the Bunnymen,
Be Bop Deluxe,
Mary Jane Girls,
Tim Buckley,
Roy Ayers,
New Age Steppers,
James Chance & The Contortions,
kango's stein massive,
B.T. Express,
The Pop Group,
The Monochrome Set,
PIL,
The Remains,
the Germs,
Q65,
Roger Hodgson,
The New Christs,
Groovy Waters,
Spandau Ballet,
Donald Byrd,
Pantaleimon,
The Velvet Underground,
Harry Pussy,
Whodini,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
The Blues Magoos,
Matthew Bourne,
Robert Görl,
Country Joe & The Fish,
Gregory Isaacs,
The Star Department,
Graham Central Station,
Lower 48,
Tres Demented,
Faust,
The Moody Blues,
Isaac Hayes,
Delta 5,
Crispy Ambulance,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
Eurythmics,
Spoonie Gee,
John Holt,
Sällskapet,
Davy DMX,
Ohio Players,
the Normal,
Vaughan Mason & Crew, Vaughan Mason & Crew, Vaughan Mason & Crew, Vaughan Mason & Crew.
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.