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 Uganda and from Toronto.
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 1961 to 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Mumbai and Columbus.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Manchester 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 1967 at the first Rodriguez practice in a loft in Detroit.
I was working on the sitar sounds with much patience.
I was there when Holger Czukay 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 Glambeats Corp. to the funk kids.
I played it at the Hacienda.
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 Radio Birdman. All the underground hits.
All Section 25 tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every X-102 record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal disco hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a 808 and a synthesizer and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Rotary Connection record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a spring reverb.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a linndrum.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Chris & Cosey,
Liaisons Dangereuses,
Pierre Henry,
MDC,
Matthew Halsall,
Depeche Mode,
Barclay James Harvest,
Mr. Review,
The Real Kids,
Don Cherry,
The Alarm Clocks,
Terry Callier,
Cecil Taylor,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
London Community Gospel Choir,
Alison Limerick,
The Stooges,
Minutemen,
Sex Pistols,
David Axelrod,
Todd Terry,
Strawberry Alarm Clock,
Brand Nubian,
Prince Buster,
Goldenarms,
Cluster,
Aaron Thompson,
Inner City,
Parry Music,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
Anthony Braxton,
Harpers Bizarre,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
Drexciya,
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
Ralphi Rosario,
John Lydon,
Section 25,
Marvin Gaye,
The Barracudas,
The Cosmic Jokers,
Lindisfarne,
Kayak,
Sällskapet,
The Dave Clark Five,
KRS-One,
Ultravox,
Eyeless In Gaza,
Archie Shepp,
The Blues Magoos,
DNA,
Duran Duran,
Peter & Gordon,
Minny Pops,
The Litter, The Litter, The Litter, The Litter.
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.