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 Bahamas and from Manchester.
But I was there.
I was there in 1979.
I was there at the first Josef K show in Edinburgh.
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 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Shanghai and Lyon.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Columbus 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 808 sounds with much patience.
I was there when Tom Verlaine 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 Lungfish to the jazz 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 Bizarre Inc.. All the underground hits.
All Mantronix tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Divine Comedy record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal jazz hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a rhodes and a marimba and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Q and Not U record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your harpsichord and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a harpsichord.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Scientists,
Delta 5,
Blake Baxter,
ABBA,
Surgeon,
Subhumans,
Das Ding,
The Victims,
Bizarre Inc.,
MDC,
Todd Terry,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Skriet,
Dorothy Ashby,
The Litter,
Trumans Water,
Tubeway Army,
Joy Division,
The Grass Roots,
Motorama,
Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane,
Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme,
Massinfluence,
Pierre Henry,
Matthew Halsall,
Barry Ungar,
Soft Machine,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
The Invisible,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
The Doobie Brothers,
Roger Hodgson,
ABC,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
The Gories,
Half Japanese,
A Flock of Seagulls,
Unrelated Segments,
Fluxion,
Fear,
Barrington Levy,
Chris Corsano,
Ronan,
Roxy Music,
Funkadelic,
The Golliwogs,
Joe Smooth,
JFA,
Roy Ayers Ubiquity,
Marc Almond,
The Black Dice,
The Pop Group,
CMW,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Blossom Toes,
Avey Tare,
Roxette,
Stetsasonic,
Boogie Down Productions,
EPMD,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Bronski Beat,
The Seeds,
Reagan Youth, Reagan Youth, Reagan Youth, Reagan Youth.
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.