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 New Zealand and from Columbus.
But I was there.
I was there in 1976.
I was there at the first Feelies show in Haledon.
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 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Lagos and Johannesburg.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Cairo 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 chamberlin sounds with much patience.
I was there when Michael McDonald 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 Quadrant to the jazz kids.
I played it at the Roxy.
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 ABC. All the underground hits.
All The Cowsills tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Joensuu 1685 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 '80s.
I hear you're buying a 808 and a clarinet and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Smoke record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your organ and bought a rhodes.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought an organ.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Soul II Soul,
The Blues Magoos,
Marshall Jefferson,
Alphaville,
The Electric Prunes,
Masters at Work,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Man Eating Sloth,
Sound Behaviour,
X-Ray Spex,
Eurythmics,
Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson,
The Black Dice,
Donald Byrd,
Aaron Thompson,
Index,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
The Moleskins,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
The New Christs,
The Young Rascals,
Suburban Knight,
Eric B and Rakim,
Nation of Ulysses,
The Blackbyrds,
MC5,
Ultimate Spinach,
The Fortunes,
The Zeros,
Kevin Saunderson,
Soulsonic Force,
Leonard Cohen,
Larry & the Blue Notes,
Dual Sessions,
Monolake,
Agent Orange,
Echospace,
Black Pus,
the Human League,
Sunsets and Hearts,
Technova,
Archie Shepp,
Black Bananas,
Yellowson,
Maurizio,
the Association,
Bootsy's Rubber Band,
Shuggie Otis,
Saccharine Trust,
Infiniti,
Mo-Dettes,
Ice-T,
The Techniques,
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
Henry Cow,
Eden Ahbez,
Silicon Teens, Silicon Teens, Silicon Teens, Silicon Teens.
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.