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 Zambia and from Lyon.
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 1968 to 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Cairo and Paris.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Manila 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 1978 at the first Visage practice in a loft in London.
I was working on the snare sounds with much patience.
I was there when David Bowie 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 K-Klass to the funk kids.
I played it at Cafe Wha.
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 Ice-T. All the underground hits.
All Henry Cow tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Ken Boothe 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 '70s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a theremin and a rhodes and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Peanut Butter Conspiracy record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought an arpeggiator.
I hear that you and your band have sold your arpeggiator and bought a spring reverb.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Gang Green,
Scott Walker,
Skaos,
Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
Art Ensemble Of Chicago,
Sad Lovers and Giants,
The Dave Clark Five,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
cv313,
Lower 48,
Fort Wilson Riot,
In Retrospect,
Erasure,
Maurizio,
Mission of Burma,
The Searchers,
Mark Hollis,
China Crisis,
Loose Ends,
Deadbeat,
Country Joe & The Fish,
The Toasters,
The Fortunes,
T.S.O.L.,
David Axelrod,
Ponytail,
Sugar Minott,
Newcleus,
Niagra,
World's Most,
Depeche Mode,
Alice Coltrane,
Todd Terry,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
These Immortal Souls,
K-Klass,
Tim Buckley,
Kango’s Stein Massive,
Todd Rundgren,
Moss Icon,
The Names,
PIL,
Pantaleimon,
Robert Wyatt,
La Düsseldorf,
Jacques Brel,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Cybotron,
Deepchord,
Charles Mingus,
Toni Rubio,
The Beau Brummels,
B.T. Express,
Joe Finger,
Aural Exciters,
Josef K,
The New Christs,
Pantytec,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam, Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam, Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam, Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam.
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.