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 United States and from Bremen.
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 1962 to 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Lille and Beijing.
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 1976 at the first Wire practice in a loft in Watford.
I was working on the 808 sounds with much patience.
I was there when Robert Palmer 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 Josef K to the funk kids.
I played it at the Crocodile.
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 Rotary Connection. All the underground hits.
All Isaac Hayes tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Bobby Sherman record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal crunk 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 theremin and a güiro and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Sparks record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought an arpeggiator.
I hear that you and your band have sold your arpeggiator and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Stereo Dub,
Spandau Ballet,
Mantronix,
Lucky Dragons,
Duran Duran,
Sound Behaviour,
Donny Hathaway,
Gabor Szabo,
Joy Division,
Easy Going,
Black Flag,
Strawberry Alarm Clock,
Arthur Verocai,
A Flock of Seagulls,
DJ Sneak,
The Blues Magoos,
Blancmange,
the Human League,
Byron Stingily,
The Sonics,
Lightning Bolt,
DNA,
The Cowsills,
John Holt,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
The Seeds,
Skarface,
Nirvana,
Juan Atkins,
Ossler,
The Kinks,
Make Up,
Trumans Water,
Magma,
Frankie Knuckles,
The Standells,
The Misunderstood,
Banda Bassotti,
Black Bananas,
Nils Olav,
Quantec,
Main Source,
Boogie Down Productions,
The Fire Engines,
The Mojo Men,
Grauzone,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
Jeff Mills,
48th St. Collective,
June Days,
Blake Baxter,
Cymande,
Essential Logic,
Jerry's Kids,
Anthony Braxton,
The Gap Band,
The American Breed,
Electric Light Orchestra,
Kenny Larkin,
Schoolly D,
Neil Young, Neil Young, Neil Young, Neil Young.
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.