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 Israel and from New York.
But I was there.
I was there in 1973.
I was there at the first Television show in New York.
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 1969 to 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Mexico City and Seoul.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Accra 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 rhodes 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 The Victims 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 Yaz. All the underground hits.
All Glambeats Corp. tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Bauhaus record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rock 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 808 and a güiro and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Maurizio record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your organ and bought a rhodes.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought an organ.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Negative Approach,
Bobbi Humphrey,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
CMW,
Ultimate Spinach,
Mars,
Albert Ayler,
Rhythm & Sound,
Ludus,
Anthony Braxton,
Bush Tetras,
The Fuzztones,
Absolute Body Control,
Patti Smith,
Laurel Aitken,
The Toasters,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Scrapy,
Hardrive,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
Nik Kershaw,
Rufus Thomas,
Jeff Mills,
Nas,
Tommy Roe,
Talk Talk,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
Mr. Review,
The Modern Lovers,
Red Lorry Yellow Lorry,
Bronski Beat,
Deakin,
Icehouse,
Nico,
The Moleskins,
Aloha Tigers,
Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft,
The Music Machine,
Reagan Youth,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
Jesper Dahlback,
Soul II Soul,
FM Einheit,
The Black Dice,
Wolf Eyes,
MC5,
Easy Going,
Judy Mowatt,
The Gladiators,
The Men They Couldn't Hang,
The Slits,
The Offenders,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
Gastr Del Sol,
The Invisible,
Babytalk,
Slick Rick,
Spandau Ballet,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
Motorama,
Jacob Miller,
Model 500, Model 500, Model 500, Model 500.
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.