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 Armenia and from Lagos.
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 1962 to 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Delhi and Mumbai.
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 Chic practice in a loft in New York.
I was working on the marimba 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 Robert Hood to the funk kids.
I played it at the Spitz.
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 Grauzone. All the underground hits.
All Nas tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Black Moon record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rock 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 an arpeggiator and a linndrum and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Larry & the Blue Notes record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought an arpeggiator.
I hear that you and your band have sold your arpeggiator and bought a mellotron.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Black Flag,
Funkadelic,
Neu!,
Warren Ellis,
Groovy Waters,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
Spoonie Gee,
Archie Shepp,
Tom Boy,
Kayak,
Zero Boys,
Supertramp,
The Dave Clark Five,
Glenn Branca,
Sister Nancy,
the Human League,
Black Pus,
Joey Negro,
Hot Snakes,
The Mojo Men,
Eyeless In Gaza,
Blancmange,
Cecil Taylor,
Johnny Osbourne,
Interpol,
The Detroit Cobras,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
The Gap Band,
Unrelated Segments,
Al Stewart,
DJ Sneak,
Drexciya,
a-ha,
The Buckinghams,
Duran Duran,
the Slits,
Outsiders,
Second Layer,
Eddi Front,
The Standells,
Marc Almond,
Sun Ra,
Don Cherry,
Cluster,
Simply Red,
Sight & Sound,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
Wally Richardson,
Jeff Lynne,
The Sisters of Mercy,
Yellowson,
Schoolly D,
Maleditus Sound,
Desert Stars,
Derrick Morgan,
Lightning Bolt,
Deadbeat,
Moebius,
Gang Green,
Jacob Miller,
UT,
Roxy Music, Roxy Music, Roxy Music, Roxy Music.
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.