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 Iran and from London.
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 1966 to 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Columbus and Manila.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Milan 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 1973 at the first Television practice in a loft in New York.
I was working on the organ 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 Amazonics to the rap kids.
I played it at the Hacienda.
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 Kool Moe Dee. All the underground hits.
All Fat Boys tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every the Association 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 '70s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a guitar and a rhodes and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Monolake record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought an oboe.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The New Christs,
Rekid,
The Toasters,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
Soulsonic Force,
The Leaves,
Bobby Hutcherson,
Maleditus Sound,
10cc,
Ponytail,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
Steve Hackett,
Joe Smooth,
Shuggie Otis,
Aloha Tigers,
Roy Ayers,
Matthew Halsall,
Section 25,
Rakim,
Soul Sonic Force,
Funky Four + One,
T. Rex,
The Saints,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
The Walker Brothers,
Japan,
Au Pairs,
Delon & Dalcan,
Liliput,
The Doobie Brothers,
The Mighty Diamonds,
Bobby Sherman,
Boz Scaggs,
Moss Icon,
The American Breed,
Dark Day,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
Nico,
Thee Headcoats,
Selector Dub Narcotic,
Duran Duran,
Rufus Thomas,
Don Cherry,
Monolake,
La Düsseldorf,
Hashim,
The Buckinghams,
Panda Bear,
Davy DMX,
Tomorrow,
Dennis Brown,
Swans,
Altered Images,
Bob Dylan,
The Cosmic Jokers,
Avey Tare's Slasher Flicks,
Kas Product,
Con Funk Shun,
Girls At Our Best!,
Lyres,
Lou Reed,
The Human League, The Human League, The Human League, The Human League.
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.