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 Micronesia 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 1967 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Seoul and Seoul.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Bremen 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 at the first Suicide practice in a loft in New York.
I was working on the arpeggiator 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 Ludus to the dance 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 Prince Buster. All the underground hits.
All Fear tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Gregory Isaacs 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 '80s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying an organ and a linndrum and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Roy Ayers record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a rhodes.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes 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?
Theoretical Girls,
The Searchers,
Sexual Harrassment,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Neil Young,
Roger Hodgson,
Severed Heads,
Section 25,
Red Lorry Yellow Lorry,
Amazonics,
Flash Fearless,
Sparks,
ABBA,
Marshall Jefferson,
Average White Band,
Half Japanese,
Nico,
Eden Ahbez,
The Trojans,
Ice-T,
Morten Harket,
John Holt,
Oppenheimer Analysis,
Intrusion,
Idris Muhammad,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
Soul Sonic Force,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
Prince Buster,
Hashim,
Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme,
Fatback Band,
The Seeds,
Pagans,
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Reuben Wilson,
The Velvet Underground,
Ronnie Foster,
Electric Prunes,
Selector Dub Narcotic,
Wally Richardson,
Ossler,
cv313,
Marc Almond,
Dawn Penn,
Panda Bear,
Vainqueur,
Robert Görl,
Crash Course in Science,
Sun Ra,
Ultravox,
Anthony Braxton,
Quando Quango,
David Bowie,
Andrew Hill,
Cheater Slicks,
Arthur Verocai,
Rapeman,
Gerry Rafferty,
Todd Terry,
Tropical Tobacco, Tropical Tobacco, Tropical Tobacco, Tropical Tobacco.
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.