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 Mexico and from Jakarta.
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 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Stockholm and Portland.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school London 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 1984 at the first Arcadia practice in a loft in London.
I was working on the snare 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 Fad Gadget to the rap kids.
I played it at the Roxy.
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 Organ. All the underground hits.
All Monolake tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Mo-Dettes 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 '60s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a theremin and a harpsichord and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Fluxion record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a rhodes.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a linndrum.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Bill Near,
DJ Style,
Gregory Isaacs,
The Saints,
In Retrospect,
Ornette Coleman,
Unrelated Segments,
Simply Red,
Livin' Joy,
Hot Snakes,
The Fugs,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
The Neon Judgement,
Urselle,
Soft Machine,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
Angels of Light & Akron/Family,
Max Romeo,
The Golliwogs,
Gong,
Sunsets and Hearts,
Mandrill,
The Sisters of Mercy,
Sun City Girls,
Public Image Ltd.,
Zapp,
Scott Walker,
Barclay James Harvest,
Ronan,
Johnny Osbourne,
The Pop Group,
Dark Day,
Kurtis Blow,
The Pretty Things,
Roxette,
Lou Christie,
Nik Kershaw,
The Cure,
The Cowsills,
Camouflage,
Lindisfarne,
Technova,
The Star Department,
Black Moon,
Outsiders,
Essential Logic,
Mantronix,
UT,
Stetsasonic,
Rotary Connection,
Traffic Nightmare,
MDC,
Neu!,
Junior Murvin,
Shuggie Otis,
Pharoah Sanders,
The Monks,
Robert Hood,
R.M.O.,
Rhythm & Sound,
Aural Exciters,
Warren Ellis,
Kayak,
Pantaleimon, Pantaleimon, Pantaleimon, Pantaleimon.
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.