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 Norway and from Edmonton.
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 1966 to 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Toronto and Calgary.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Bremen 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 Second Layer practice in a loft in South London.
I was working on the sitar sounds with much patience.
I was there when Donald Fagen 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 Agitation Free to the jazz 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 Slave. All the underground hits.
All ABC tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Easy Going 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 '80s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a marimba and a snare and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Smiths record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought an oboe.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
E-Dancer,
Lyres,
The Names,
Derrick May,
CMW,
Pantytec,
Alphaville,
Nik Kershaw,
John Cale,
New Age Steppers,
Rekid,
Cluster,
Bootsy Collins,
Thompson Twins,
Camouflage,
The Residents,
Aural Exciters,
The Slits,
Glenn Branca,
The Black Dice,
Yaz,
The Monochrome Set,
Mission of Burma,
Yusef Lateef,
Derrick Morgan,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
Bang On A Can,
Sly & The Family Stone,
Jerry's Kids,
Peter & Gordon,
Kas Product,
The Blackbyrds,
DJ Sneak,
Fort Wilson Riot,
Electric Prunes,
Joey Negro,
Mo-Dettes,
Dawn Penn,
Scott Walker,
Leonard Cohen,
The Gun Club,
Yazoo,
Altered Images,
Fatback Band,
Joensuu 1685,
A Certain Ratio,
Big Daddy Kane,
The Velvet Underground,
Little Man,
Judy Mowatt,
Animal Collective,
Surgeon,
The Beau Brummels,
Erykah Badu,
Technova,
Hashim,
Donald Byrd,
Basic Channel,
Radiohead, Radiohead, Radiohead, Radiohead.
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.