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 Marshall Islands and from Portland.
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 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Taipei and Jakarta.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Mumbai 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 spring reverb sounds with much patience.
I was there when David Bowie 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 Kas Product to the grime 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 Japan. All the underground hits.
All Jeff Mills tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Richard Hell and the Voidoids record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rock hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a 808 and a rhodes and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Sun Ra Arkestra record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a mellotron.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a 808.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Five Americans,
Sandy B,
Davy DMX,
Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx,
Minor Threat,
Teenage Jesus and the Jerks,
Mantronix,
Bobbi Humphrey,
Curtis Mayfield,
Stiv Bators,
Gabor Szabo,
Masters at Work,
Boz Scaggs,
Fela Kuti,
Kango’s Stein Massive,
Black Flag,
Marmalade,
Angry Samoans,
The Modern Lovers,
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band,
Parry Music,
Bauhaus,
DJ Style,
Visage,
Popol Vuh,
Alton Ellis,
Magma,
China Crisis,
Drexciya,
The Fire Engines,
Brand Nubian,
Scientists,
Sound Behaviour,
Sex Pistols,
Scion,
The Moleskins,
Kool Moe Dee,
James Chance & The Contortions,
Patti Smith,
Scrapy,
Reagan Youth,
Reuben Wilson,
Liaisons Dangereuses,
Sparks,
Gerry Rafferty,
Talk Talk,
Underground Resistance,
Matthew Bourne,
Fort Wilson Riot,
Negative Approach,
Jeff Lynne,
The American Breed,
Peter & Gordon,
X-101,
Tears for Fears,
Joe Smooth,
Suburban Knight,
E-Dancer,
Surgeon,
It's A Beautiful Day,
The Golliwogs,
David McCallum,
Gregory Isaacs, Gregory Isaacs, Gregory Isaacs, Gregory Isaacs.
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.