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 Qatar and from Cairo.
But I was there.
I was there in 1977.
I was there at the first Human League show in Sheffield.
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 1965 to 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Bologna and Cairo.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Cairo 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 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 Gong to the techno kids.
I played it at CBGB's.
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 Tim Buckley. All the underground hits.
All Kool G Rap & DJ Polo tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every 8 Eyed Spy record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal jazz 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 harpsichord and a 808 and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Schoolly D record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought a clarinet.
I hear that you and your band have sold your clarinet and bought a snare.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Faraquet,
Boogie Down Productions,
Janne Schatter,
Derrick Morgan,
World's Most,
Massinfluence,
Glenn Branca,
Fad Gadget,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
Althea and Donna,
Radiohead,
DJ Sneak,
Fugazi,
Goldenarms,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
The Fuzztones,
Erasure,
Section 25,
The Last Poets,
Arab on Radar,
James White and The Blacks,
The Smoke,
Leonard Cohen,
Bootsy Collins,
Audionom,
Echo & the Bunnymen,
John Coltrane,
Toni Rubio,
The Zeros,
Grey Daturas,
The Saints,
Negative Approach,
Clear Light,
Erykah Badu,
The Alarm Clocks,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
Johnny Osbourne,
Aural Exciters,
Robert Hood,
The Dead C,
Eurythmics,
Alton Ellis,
Gang of Four,
Drexciya,
Gerry Rafferty,
Half Japanese,
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
Fluxion,
Sight & Sound,
Icehouse,
Kango’s Stein Massive,
Tim Buckley,
The Trojans,
Bill Wells,
Delon & Dalcan,
The Golliwogs,
Hasil Adkins,
Wally Richardson,
Sparks,
Urselle,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
The Monks,
Sound Behaviour,
Public Image Ltd.,
Soft Machine, Soft Machine, Soft Machine, Soft Machine.
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.