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 Nepal and from Bremen.
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 1964 to 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Cairo and Manila.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Lagos 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 1973 at the first Television practice in a loft in New York.
I was working on the organ 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 Sandy B to the rock 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 Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth. All the underground hits.
All Flamin' Groovies tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every the Normal record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal electroclash hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a clarinet and a mellotron and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Bobby Byrd record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a 808.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Derrick Morgan,
One Last Wish,
Frankie Knuckles,
DJ Style,
Gang Green,
The Star Department,
Quando Quango,
Oppenheimer Analysis,
The Modern Lovers,
Mark Hollis,
Jeff Mills,
Morten Harket,
Chris Corsano,
Neil Young,
Massinfluence,
Crooked Eye,
Althea and Donna,
Little Man,
June Days,
Charles Mingus,
Man Eating Sloth,
John Cale,
the Soft Cell,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
Dave Gahan,
Schoolly D,
The Techniques,
Livin' Joy,
The Gap Band,
the Association,
Ronan,
Television Personalities,
Freddie Wadling,
Echospace,
Sunsets and Hearts,
Curtis Mayfield,
The Shadows of Knight,
Adolescents,
Second Layer,
Slick Rick,
a-ha,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
Wings,
Judy Mowatt,
Can,
Isaac Hayes,
The Cosmic Jokers,
Eddi Front,
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band,
Steve Hackett,
Animal Collective,
James White and The Blacks,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
Gang of Four,
Faraquet,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
LL Cool J,
The Slits,
Ralphi Rosario,
Infiniti,
Tropical Tobacco,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
Ultimate Spinach,
H. Thieme, H. Thieme, H. Thieme, H. Thieme.
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.