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 Denmark and from Salvador.
But I was there.
I was there in 1977.
I was there at the first Mistral show in Amsterdam.
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 1963 to 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Johannesburg and Copenhagen.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Delhi 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 sitar sounds with much patience.
I was there when Nile Rodgers 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 Aloha Tigers to the grunge kids.
I played it at the Spitz.
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 Maurizio. All the underground hits.
All Guru Guru tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Vladislav Delay record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grime hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a rhodes and a linndrum and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a JFA record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a clarinet.
I hear that you and your band have sold your clarinet and bought a chamberlin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Teenage Jesus and the Jerks,
Young Marble Giants,
Television Personalities,
Barry Ungar,
Richard Hell and the Voidoids,
Funky Four + One,
Marc Almond,
The Young Rascals,
Nation of Ulysses,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
New Order,
Grey Daturas,
Pole,
Neil Young,
Main Source,
The Cramps,
Chris Corsano,
Brass Construction,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Cymande,
Flipper,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Grauzone,
The Searchers,
Section 25,
Tropical Tobacco,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
Gabor Szabo,
Metal Thangz,
Black Sheep,
Alphaville,
Fatback Band,
Anakelly,
Magazine,
Arthur Verocai,
Schoolly D,
Absolute Body Control,
Albert Ayler,
Goldenarms,
Sunsets and Hearts,
JFA,
Deakin,
The Divine Comedy,
Michelle Simonal,
Howard Jones,
Ronan,
Kerri Chandler,
Pere Ubu,
Faust,
Skarface,
the Human League,
Jesper Dahlback,
The Walker Brothers,
June Days,
Royal Trux,
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
Girls At Our Best!,
Stiv Bators,
The Fortunes,
Mandrill,
Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog, Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog, Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog, Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog.
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.