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 Finland and from Tokyo.
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 1969 to 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Seoul and Lyon.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Madrid 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 linndrum 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 Nas to the disco kids.
I played it at the Troubador.
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 Scion. All the underground hits.
All Fear tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Tom Boy 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 '70s.
I hear you're buying a spring reverb and a rhodes and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Sparks record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought an arpeggiator.
I hear that you and your band have sold your arpeggiator and bought a theremin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Stiv Bators,
New Order,
Mandrill,
Cal Tjader,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
One Last Wish,
10cc,
Essential Logic,
Banda Bassotti,
Janne Schatter,
X-102,
Marc Almond,
Minny Pops,
Black Bananas,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
Girls At Our Best!,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
Liaisons Dangereuses,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
the Human League,
Joe Smooth,
Animal Collective,
FM Einheit,
Symarip,
Hot Snakes,
The Monochrome Set,
Amon Düül,
Visage,
Ralphi Rosario,
Johnny Clarke,
Sexual Harrassment,
EPMD,
48th St. Collective,
Ten City,
The Evens,
Cybotron,
The Shadows of Knight,
The Fall,
Larry & the Blue Notes,
Lalo Schifrin,
The Slackers,
Lyres,
Roxy Music,
Mary Jane Girls,
Soul II Soul,
New Age Steppers,
Archie Shepp,
Yazoo,
The Star Department,
Aaron Thompson,
Laurel Aitken,
Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson,
Siglo XX,
Das Ding,
The Motions,
Kings Of Tomorrow,
Ronnie Foster,
Gastr Del Sol,
Kango’s Stein Massive,
Bluetip,
Andrew Hill, Andrew Hill, Andrew Hill, Andrew Hill.
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.