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 Portugal and from Mumbai.
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 1961 to 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Milan and Tokyo.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Jakarta 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 oboe 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 Suburban Knight to the rap kids.
I played it at Trash.
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 Ossler. All the underground hits.
All Derrick May tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Barclay James Harvest record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rap 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 a sitar and a sitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Smog record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your clarinet and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a clarinet.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Eric Dolphy,
the Germs,
LL Cool J,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
The Divine Comedy,
The Pop Group,
Alton Ellis,
Sandy B,
Gregory Isaacs,
Lightning Bolt,
Fad Gadget,
Fela Kuti,
Sad Lovers and Giants,
The Doors,
a-ha,
MDC,
Dead Boys,
Bobby Womack,
Black Moon,
Bill Near,
Suicide,
The Star Department,
La Düsseldorf,
Moby Grape,
The Martian,
Parry Music,
Echospace,
Fluxion,
Minor Threat,
Albert Ayler,
Scratch Acid,
Intrusion,
Kurtis Blow,
The Mummies,
Ultra Naté,
Reuben Wilson,
Maurizio,
Be Bop Deluxe,
Hardrive,
Smog,
Yellowson,
Procol Harum,
Tres Demented,
The Names,
Scientists,
Soft Cell,
Deadbeat,
It's A Beautiful Day,
Liliput,
Nik Kershaw,
The Neon Judgement,
Easy Going,
MC5,
Delta 5,
Public Image Ltd.,
Girls At Our Best!,
Vladislav Delay,
The Wake,
Brick,
Crime,
Drexciya,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish, Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish, Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish, Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish.
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.