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 Czech Republic 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 1961 to 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Winnipeg and Jakarta.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Glasgow 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 Feelies practice in a loft in Haledon.
I was working on the organ 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 Blancmange to the electroclash kids.
I played it at the 40 Watt.
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 Grandmaster Flash. All the underground hits.
All Main Source tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Henry Cow record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal disco hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a synthesizer and a clarinet and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your güiro and bought a rhodes.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a güiro.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Skatalites,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Liliput,
The Zeros,
Ludus,
F. McDonald,
Mandrill,
Q and Not U,
Drive Like Jehu,
Drexciya,
The Victims,
cv313,
Kenny Larkin,
Black Flag,
Massinfluence,
The Misunderstood,
Essential Logic,
The Five Americans,
Panda Bear,
Dorothy Ashby,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
the Swans,
D'Angelo,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
Funky Four + One,
Faraquet,
Tears for Fears,
Lalann,
Yaz,
Moss Icon,
Buzzcocks,
Visage,
Robert Görl,
Negative Approach,
Dawn Penn,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
the Soft Cell,
Tomorrow,
Girls At Our Best!,
The Martian,
June Days,
Piero Umiliani,
Groovy Waters,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
Curtis Mayfield,
Connie Case,
The Index,
Blake Baxter,
MDC,
The Vogues,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
The Durutti Column,
Grandmaster Flash,
Livin' Joy,
Joe Smooth,
Magma,
Stereo Dub,
Chris Corsano,
Chris & Cosey,
The Searchers,
Adolescents, Adolescents, Adolescents, Adolescents.
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.