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 Jamaica and from Bologna.
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 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Bremen and Calgary.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Accra 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 1975 at the first Throbbing Gristle practice in a loft in London.
I was working on the snare sounds with much patience.
I was there when Robert Palmer 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 Stetsasonic to the rap kids.
I played it at the Troubador.
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 Outsiders. All the underground hits.
All Excepter tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Joe Smooth 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 '70s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a snare and an arpeggiator and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Quando Quango record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a linndrum.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
L. Decosne,
Technova,
Stockholm Monsters,
Babytalk,
Franke,
Angels of Light & Akron/Family,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
Mad Mike,
Alice Coltrane,
Magazine,
Lou Christie,
Aaron Thompson,
Quando Quango,
8 Eyed Spy,
The Velvet Underground,
Lucky Dragons,
The Sound,
Howard Jones,
FM Einheit,
Grauzone,
X-101,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
The Black Dice,
a-ha,
Yazoo,
Freddie Wadling,
Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson,
The Human League,
Tubeway Army,
Porter Ricks,
Pole,
The Slits,
Pierre Henry,
Kurtis Blow,
The Five Americans,
Dorothy Ashby,
The Toasters,
Throbbing Gristle,
Bobby Hutcherson,
Ultra Naté,
Zero Boys,
Bizarre Inc.,
New York Dolls,
Easy Going,
Slick Rick,
Susan Cadogan,
Lower 48,
Kerrie Biddell,
Soft Machine,
Lou Reed,
F. McDonald,
Darondo,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
Anakelly,
MC5,
Josef K,
John Lydon,
ABBA,
The Dirtbombs,
Brass Construction,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz, Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz, Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz, Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz.
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.