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 Poland and from Tehran.
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 1964 to 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Shanghai and Halifax.
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 1977 at the first Mistral practice in a loft in Amsterdam.
I was working on the rhodes 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 Cal Tjader to the rap kids.
I played it at the 40 Watt.
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 Buckinghams. All the underground hits.
All Cameo tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Eric Dolphy 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 '70s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a linndrum and a spring reverb and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Kerrie Biddell record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a snare.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought a 808.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Skarface,
Y Pants,
Juan Atkins,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
Ash Ra Tempel,
John Foxx,
Leonard Cohen,
Ice-T,
Chris Corsano,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
Eve St. Jones,
Sällskapet,
Wire,
Deepchord,
Andrew Hill,
The Selecter,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
Lalann,
The Cure,
Masters at Work,
Arab on Radar,
Susan Cadogan,
Sunsets and Hearts,
The Real Kids,
Tubeway Army,
Brothers Johnson,
Magazine,
Quantec,
Big Daddy Kane,
Sad Lovers and Giants,
FM Einheit,
Amazonics,
Davy DMX,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Jeff Mills,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
Hashim,
Supertramp,
Godley & Creme,
The Techniques,
Chris & Cosey,
Blake Baxter,
Dual Sessions,
Black Moon,
Fort Wilson Riot,
Scientists,
Goldenarms,
the Association,
The Mummies,
Soft Machine,
Man Eating Sloth,
Zero Boys,
Richard Hell and the Voidoids,
Nik Kershaw,
Second Layer,
Glambeats Corp.,
Unrelated Segments,
48th St. Collective,
Gang Green,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Reagan Youth,
Subhumans, Subhumans, Subhumans, Subhumans.
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.