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 Tokyo.
But I was there.
I was there in 1977.
I was there at the first Human League show in Sheffield.
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 1969 to 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Spokane and Accra.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Madrid 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 Mistral practice in a loft in Amsterdam.
I was working on the 808 sounds with much patience.
I was there when Donald Fagen 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 Tres Demented to the jazz 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 Nico. All the underground hits.
All The Fall tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Anthony Braxton 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 '70s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a linndrum and a güiro and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Zeros record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your arpeggiator and bought a linndrum.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought an arpeggiator.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
David Axelrod,
Public Enemy,
These Immortal Souls,
Eddi Front,
The Litter,
Peter and Kerry,
Janne Schatter,
The Birthday Party,
A Certain Ratio,
Pantytec,
kango's stein massive,
The Searchers,
The Offenders,
Hardrive,
Motorama,
Roxy Music,
David McCallum,
Arcadia,
The Doors,
Rotary Connection,
The Residents,
Royal Trux,
Monks,
Inner City,
The Grass Roots,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
Au Pairs,
Kenny Larkin,
The Red Krayola,
The Fugs,
Deadbeat,
Funky Four + One,
Idris Muhammad,
Yusef Lateef,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
Dual Sessions,
Nirvana,
Rufus Thomas,
Jawbox,
a-ha,
Todd Rundgren,
Lindisfarne,
Pulsallama,
Derrick May,
Wolf Eyes,
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band,
Camberwell Now,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
Joe Smooth,
Roxette,
Chris Corsano,
Josef K,
Outsiders,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
The Pretty Things,
The Detroit Cobras,
Gabor Szabo,
Faraquet,
Cabaret Voltaire,
Arthur Verocai,
Agent Orange,
Sun Ra,
June Days, June Days, June Days, June Days.
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.