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 Rwanda and from Accra.
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 1960 to 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Woodstock and Glasgow.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Beijing 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 guitar 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 Warren Ellis to the rap kids.
I played it at Cafe Wha.
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 United States of America. All the underground hits.
All David Bowie tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Desert Stars record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal dance hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a mellotron and a clarinet and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Fort Wilson Riot record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought an oboe.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a mellotron.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
China Crisis,
Goldenarms,
Sugar Minott,
Eric Copeland,
Yazoo,
Eden Ahbez,
Marc Romboy vs. Booka Shade,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
The Doobie Brothers,
The Happenings,
The United States of America,
Max Romeo,
Judy Mowatt,
Amazonics,
The Seeds,
Crash Course in Science,
Dark Day,
London Community Gospel Choir,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
Subhumans,
Swans,
Delon & Dalcan,
The J.B.'s,
The Trojans,
Main Source,
Minutemen,
Faust,
Junior Murvin,
Frankie Knuckles,
Newcleus,
Skarface,
Gang Green,
Gastr Del Sol,
Jerry Gold Smith,
Con Funk Shun,
Skaos,
Cecil Taylor,
Rosa Yemen,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Audionom,
Chris Corsano,
ABC,
EPMD,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Bang On A Can,
Japan,
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark,
Panda Bear,
Reagan Youth,
The Motions,
cv313,
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band,
The Doors,
Arthur Verocai,
John Coltrane,
Cameo,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
Masters at Work,
Altered Images,
Rapeman,
Neil Young,
ABBA,
Crime, Crime, Crime, Crime.
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.