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 Estonia and from Winnipeg.
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 1966 to 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in London and Portland.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Tehran 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 1979 at the first Josef K practice in a loft in Edinburgh.
I was working on the oboe sounds with much patience.
I was there when Michael McDonald 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 Delta 5 to the techno kids.
I played it at the Hacienda.
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 De La Soul & Jungle Brothers. All the underground hits.
All Zapp tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Chocolate Watch Band record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal funk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a güiro and an organ and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Dorothy Ashby record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought an oboe.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a snare.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Doors,
Pantaleimon,
The Divine Comedy,
Joensuu 1685,
The Evens,
This Heat,
Jeff Mills,
Altered Images,
Bauhaus,
David Axelrod,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
The Alarm Clocks,
It's A Beautiful Day,
Sun Ra,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
Maleditus Sound,
Swell Maps,
Jerry's Kids,
The Move,
Banda Bassotti,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
Carl Craig,
Rotary Connection,
Joy Division,
Sällskapet,
Todd Rundgren,
Absolute Body Control,
Wasted Youth,
Bootsy's Rubber Band,
Connie Case,
PIL,
Pylon,
Larry & the Blue Notes,
Echo & the Bunnymen,
Boredoms,
The Shadows of Knight,
Grandmaster Flash,
A Flock of Seagulls,
The Misunderstood,
The Dave Clark Five,
Monks,
Public Image Ltd.,
Eddi Front,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
Loose Ends,
Kevin Saunderson,
Ponytail,
Hot Snakes,
Dawn Penn,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
Sad Lovers and Giants,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
The Stooges,
Gong,
Intrusion,
Johnny Clarke,
Pantytec,
The Residents,
Fifty Foot Hose,
Slave,
Schoolly D,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud, Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud, Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud, Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud.
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.