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 East Timor and from Columbus.
But I was there.
I was there in 1973.
I was there at the first Television show in New York.
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 1962 to 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Lagos and Johannesburg.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Tehran 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 güiro 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 Skaos to the grime kids.
I played it at the Hacienda.
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 Darondo. All the underground hits.
All Rotary Connection tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Outsiders 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 '60s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a snare and a marimba and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Barbara Tucker record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a theremin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
A Certain Ratio,
Bootsy Collins,
Television Personalities,
Yazoo,
Jesper Dahlback,
The Seeds,
Joy Division,
Ken Boothe,
The Standells,
OOIOO,
The Alarm Clocks,
Country Teasers,
Bill Near,
Soft Cell,
Ralphi Rosario,
This Heat,
MDC,
Cal Tjader,
Roger Hodgson,
Scott Walker,
Morten Harket,
Pulsallama,
Mandrill,
Be Bop Deluxe,
Marmalade,
Talk Talk,
Glambeats Corp.,
Gabor Szabo,
Rosa Yemen,
The Zeros,
The Happenings,
Peter and Kerry,
Man Parrish,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Hasil Adkins,
Can,
Q and Not U,
Rakim,
KRS-One,
Quantec,
Sparks,
The Divine Comedy,
Prince Buster,
Bob Dylan,
Simply Red,
Public Image Ltd.,
Eurythmics,
Eden Ahbez,
The Misunderstood,
Barclay James Harvest,
Quadrant,
Fugazi,
Graham Central Station,
Erykah Badu,
Amon Düül,
Bauhaus,
It's A Beautiful Day,
The Smoke,
Nils Olav,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
David Bowie,
Robert Wyatt, Robert Wyatt, Robert Wyatt, Robert Wyatt.
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.