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 the UAE and from Paris.
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 1967 to 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Mumbai and Johannesburg.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Delhi 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 harpsichord 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 Black Pus to the funk kids.
I played it at CBGB's.
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 Amazonics. All the underground hits.
All Robert Wyatt tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Ten City record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal dance hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a 808 and a guitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Marine Girls record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a linndrum.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a mellotron.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
the Soft Cell,
Sam Rivers,
Masters at Work,
Adolescents,
Interpol,
Kerrie Biddell,
The Zeros,
Ultimate Spinach,
Dorothy Ashby,
The Victims,
Derrick May,
Soft Cell,
Sällskapet,
Althea and Donna,
X-Ray Spex,
Alton Ellis,
Stetsasonic,
The Gap Band,
Oblivians,
Quando Quango,
Simply Red,
Cluster,
Groovy Waters,
Radiohead,
China Crisis,
London Community Gospel Choir,
Michelle Simonal,
Brothers Johnson,
The Evens,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
Easy Going,
The Tremeloes,
Aloha Tigers,
Gil Scott Heron,
John Coltrane,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
Alice Coltrane,
Crooked Eye,
D'Angelo,
Young Marble Giants,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
Minutemen,
Lakeside,
The Standells,
Camberwell Now,
The Cosmic Jokers,
Japan,
Red Lorry Yellow Lorry,
The Last Poets,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Danielle Patucci,
The Techniques,
Country Joe & The Fish,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Deakin,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
Basic Channel,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Sparks,
Angry Samoans,
Blossom Toes,
Duran Duran,
Sound Behaviour,
Half Japanese, Half Japanese, Half Japanese, Half Japanese.
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.