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 Tanzania and from Copenhagen.
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 1968 to 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Bologna and Mumbai.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Paris 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 808 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 Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan to the grime 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 Au Pairs. All the underground hits.
All Groovy Waters tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Dave Gahan 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 '70s.
I hear you're buying a guitar and an arpeggiator and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Darondo record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a clarinet.
I hear that you and your band have sold your clarinet and bought a rhodes.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
Terry Callier,
The Invisible,
Masters at Work,
Sam Rivers,
Sixth Finger,
Delon & Dalcan,
Groovy Waters,
Little Man,
Gang Green,
the Fania All-Stars,
The Litter,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Man Parrish,
Depeche Mode,
Fluxion,
Scan 7,
Tres Demented,
Sandy B,
Robert Hood,
Tubeway Army,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
Dark Day,
Louis and Bebe Barron,
Hasil Adkins,
Drive Like Jehu,
Cymande,
Wally Richardson,
Archie Shepp,
Wasted Youth,
the Human League,
Slave,
Robert Wyatt,
Sällskapet,
Dennis Brown,
DNA,
Isaac Hayes,
Sugar Minott,
Basic Channel,
The Residents,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
Ituana,
Erykah Badu,
Marvin Gaye,
Tommy Roe,
Mad Mike,
R.M.O.,
Barrington Levy,
Au Pairs,
Lightning Bolt,
The Sisters of Mercy,
La Düsseldorf,
Suburban Knight,
Ponytail,
The Cramps,
Technova,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
Don Cherry,
Blancmange,
Jesper Dahlback,
Amon Düül,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
Pet Shop Boys,
Todd Rundgren,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo, Kool G Rap & DJ Polo, Kool G Rap & DJ Polo, Kool G Rap & DJ Polo.
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.