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 Senegal and from Manila.
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 1960 to 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Philadelphia and Portland.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Salvador 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 1984 at the first Arcadia practice in a loft in London.
I was working on the 808 sounds with much patience.
I was there when Michael McDonald 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 Crooked Eye to the disco kids.
I played it at the Roxy.
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 Stetsasonic. All the underground hits.
All Freddie Wadling tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Delon & Dalcan record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal dance 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 harpsichord and an oboe and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Sarah Menescal record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a theremin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a 808.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Motorama,
Rosa Yemen,
Warren Ellis,
Art Ensemble Of Chicago,
Half Japanese,
Black Sheep,
Rotary Connection,
Ultimate Spinach,
Shuggie Otis,
The Modern Lovers,
The Zeros,
Cecil Taylor,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
The Remains,
Jimmy McGriff,
10cc,
Harpers Bizarre,
Bootsy Collins,
Robert Görl,
Tubeway Army,
Fela Kuti,
Con Funk Shun,
Larry & the Blue Notes,
Sun Ra,
Sun City Girls,
Yaz,
Wolf Eyes,
Donny Hathaway,
The New Christs,
Curtis Mayfield,
The Skatalites,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Angels of Light & Akron/Family,
Reagan Youth,
The Star Department,
The Red Krayola,
Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme,
Tom Boy,
X-Ray Spex,
Rapeman,
Eden Ahbez,
Sarah Menescal,
The Human League,
The Grass Roots,
The Fugs,
Sällskapet,
Red Lorry Yellow Lorry,
The Flesh Eaters,
Oneida,
Gabor Szabo,
Marcia Griffiths,
June of 44,
The Associates,
Quando Quango,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
Wire,
Sad Lovers and Giants,
Television Personalities,
Neil Young,
Niagra,
The Doors,
Stockholm Monsters, Stockholm Monsters, Stockholm Monsters, Stockholm Monsters.
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.