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 Egypt 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 1966 to 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Tehran and Sao Paulo.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Manchester 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 güiro sounds with much patience.
I was there when Holger Czukay 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 Lindisfarne to the crunk kids.
I played it at the Astoria.
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 Schoolly D. All the underground hits.
All DJ Style tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Interpol 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 '50s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a theremin and a clarinet and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a ABC record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your arpeggiator and bought a sitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought an arpeggiator.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Kool Moe Dee,
Talk Talk,
Saccharine Trust,
Moebius,
Wire,
Ultravox,
Eve St. Jones,
Newcleus,
Laurel Aitken,
the Human League,
Amon Düül II,
Das Ding,
Sun Ra,
Derrick Morgan,
Pantaleimon,
Bluetip,
Cluster,
Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
Matthew Bourne,
Leonard Cohen,
Arthur Verocai,
The Busters,
Brand Nubian,
Chris & Cosey,
Alice Coltrane,
Lindisfarne,
Roxy Music,
Rakim,
Curtis Mayfield,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
Sunsets and Hearts,
Wally Richardson,
Donny Hathaway,
Scott Walker,
Liliput,
The Seeds,
Suicide,
Kerri Chandler,
The Moody Blues,
Eric B and Rakim,
Agitation Free,
Connie Case,
The Skatalites,
Grandmaster Flash,
Johnny Osbourne,
Cheater Slicks,
David Axelrod,
Negative Approach,
Fatback Band,
Public Enemy,
Boz Scaggs,
Heaven 17,
Steve Hackett,
La Düsseldorf,
Drive Like Jehu,
Sly & The Family Stone,
Robert Görl,
The Fuzztones,
The Associates,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap, Gary Puckett & The Union Gap, Gary Puckett & The Union Gap, Gary Puckett & The Union Gap.
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.