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 Namibia and from Johannesburg.
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 1963 to 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Beijing and Madrid.
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 1976 at the first Chic practice in a loft in New York.
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 Girls At Our Best! to the techno kids.
I played it at the Crocodile.
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 Alarm Clocks. All the underground hits.
All This Heat tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Sällskapet record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal punk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a chamberlin and an arpeggiator and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Panda Bear record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a spring reverb.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought an oboe.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Matthew Bourne,
Rosa Yemen,
Bobbi Humphrey,
Strawberry Alarm Clock,
The Remains,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
Aural Exciters,
London Community Gospel Choir,
the Swans,
Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson,
Shuggie Otis,
Suicide,
the Normal,
Pantytec,
Glambeats Corp.,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
Harpers Bizarre,
Erykah Badu,
The Young Rascals,
Pet Shop Boys,
The Seeds,
A Flock of Seagulls,
The Residents,
X-101,
Boogie Down Productions,
Clear Light,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Red Lorry Yellow Lorry,
Suburban Knight,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Donny Hathaway,
Max Romeo,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
Angry Samoans,
Quantec,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Marshall Jefferson,
Judy Mowatt,
Mo-Dettes,
The Doors,
R.M.O.,
Lou Christie,
Freddie Wadling,
Donald Byrd,
Mandrill,
Massinfluence,
The Pretty Things,
Warren Ellis,
The Gladiators,
Jimmy McGriff,
Visage,
Avey Tare,
Brick,
EPMD,
Television Personalities,
Matthew Halsall,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Chris & Cosey,
Newcleus,
Bizarre Inc.,
Model 500,
The Cowsills,
the Sonics, the Sonics, the Sonics, the Sonics.
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.