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 Togo and from Copenhagen.
But I was there.
I was there in 1984.
I was there at the first Arcadia show in London.
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 1967 to 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Lagos and Mexico City.
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 oboe 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 Das Ding to the dance 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 Jimmy McGriff. All the underground hits.
All The Motions tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Sound Behaviour record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal disco hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a spring reverb and an oboe and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Symarip record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a clarinet.
I hear that you and your band have sold your clarinet and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Fela Kuti,
Isaac Hayes,
Alphaville,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Icehouse,
Laurel Aitken,
Scratch Acid,
EPMD,
Bill Wells,
Soul Sonic Force,
R.M.O.,
Mad Mike,
Gastr Del Sol,
The Offenders,
Strawberry Alarm Clock,
Carl Craig,
Steve Hackett,
Moebius,
Fluxion,
The Sisters of Mercy,
John Foxx,
Tres Demented,
Pylon,
The Vogues,
Crooked Eye,
Pagans,
Depeche Mode,
Brand Nubian,
the Germs,
Warren Ellis,
The Seeds,
Terry Callier,
Minnie Riperton,
Blossom Toes,
Eden Ahbez,
Boredoms,
Jacob Miller,
Letta Mbulu,
Eric B and Rakim,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
Tubeway Army,
the Normal,
Girls At Our Best!,
Intrusion,
The Flesh Eaters,
Adolescents,
Delta 5,
Minny Pops,
Oneida,
Rapeman,
Swell Maps,
Zapp,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
The Selecter,
Jandek,
Niagra,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
Juan Atkins,
Matthew Bourne,
Agitation Free, Agitation Free, Agitation Free, Agitation Free.
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.