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 Uzbekistan and from Mumbai.
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 1962 to 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Paris and New York.
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 1979 at the first Josef K practice in a loft in Edinburgh.
I was working on the rhodes sounds with much patience.
I was there when Robert Palmer 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 Dorothy Ashby to the grunge kids.
I played it at the Crocodile.
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 Fear. All the underground hits.
All Harpers Bizarre tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Bad Manners record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rap 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 rhodes and a chamberlin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Chocolate Watch Band record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a snare.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Pet Shop Boys,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
Pylon,
The Litter,
Hardrive,
The Mighty Diamonds,
Matthew Bourne,
Ornette Coleman,
The Gladiators,
Second Layer,
Funky Four + One,
Au Pairs,
Niagra,
Wolf Eyes,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
Rod Modell,
10cc,
D'Angelo,
Kevin Saunderson,
Janne Schatter,
Silicon Teens,
Rapeman,
Inner City,
Porter Ricks,
Ken Boothe,
Charles Mingus,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
Gang of Four,
a-ha,
Pantytec,
Visage,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Kerrie Biddell,
The Pretty Things,
The Mojo Men,
Roxette,
The Raincoats,
Brass Construction,
The Cosmic Jokers,
The Sonics,
Trumans Water,
Lucky Dragons,
Anakelly,
Minnie Riperton,
Davy DMX,
Avey Tare's Slasher Flicks,
Louis and Bebe Barron,
Bobby Womack,
Derrick May,
Joey Negro,
LL Cool J,
Gregory Isaacs,
Funkadelic,
Sugar Minott,
Agent Orange,
Max Romeo,
The Victims,
Smog,
Sunsets and Hearts,
New York Dolls,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
The Standells,
Scion, Scion, Scion, Scion.
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.