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 Nauru and from Johannesburg.
But I was there.
I was there in 1979.
I was there at the first Second Layer show in South London.
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 1962 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Shanghai and Seoul.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Portland 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 arpeggiator 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 Fear to the dance kids.
I played it at Cafe Wha.
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 KRS-One. All the underground hits.
All the Fania All-Stars tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every John Holt record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal electroclash hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a mellotron and a harpsichord and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Donny Hathaway record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a rhodes.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a spring reverb.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Kerrie Biddell,
Janne Schatter,
David Axelrod,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Leonard Cohen,
Cecil Taylor,
June of 44,
Young Marble Giants,
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Pantaleimon,
Talk Talk,
Inner City,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Marmalade,
Absolute Body Control,
Ronnie Foster,
Scan 7,
Cameo,
Boredoms,
Stereo Dub,
Gichy Dan,
Andrew Hill,
Clear Light,
Y Pants,
Rites of Spring,
Grauzone,
The Gap Band,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
Larry & the Blue Notes,
Sonic Youth,
Tim Buckley,
Heaven 17,
Gang Starr,
Ituana,
Man Parrish,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
Pantytec,
Kayak,
The Saints,
Harpers Bizarre,
Sandy B,
Rakim,
Eric Copeland,
Electric Light Orchestra,
New Order,
Lightning Bolt,
David Bowie,
Barbara Tucker,
The Slackers,
Arthur Verocai,
Jeff Lynne,
Hashim,
the Soft Cell,
Dave Gahan,
Pylon,
The Walker Brothers,
The Monochrome Set,
8 Eyed Spy,
Connie Case,
The Buckinghams, The Buckinghams, The Buckinghams, The Buckinghams.
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.