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 Jordan and from London.
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 1967 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Houston and Madrid.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Hong Kong 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 rhodes 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 Stereo Dub to the disco kids.
I played it at the Crocodile.
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 Boogie Down Productions. All the underground hits.
All The Zeros tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Terrestrial Tones record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal crunk 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 clarinet and a spring reverb and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Pylon record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a rhodes.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
AZ,
Fatback Band,
Barbara Tucker,
Marcia Griffiths,
Lucky Dragons,
Boz Scaggs,
Essential Logic,
Jacques Brel,
Surgeon,
UT,
8 Eyed Spy,
The Raincoats,
Faust,
Dorothy Ashby,
Mandrill,
Bootsy Collins,
Lalo Schifrin,
Funky Four + One,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Moebius,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
D'Angelo,
Hoover,
Idris Muhammad,
The Mighty Diamonds,
Ituana,
The Neon Judgement,
The J.B.'s,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
Bizarre Inc.,
Henry Cow,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Barry Ungar,
David Bowie,
Lalann,
The Gladiators,
Black Pus,
Neil Young,
Mantronix,
Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
the Slits,
Althea and Donna,
Donald Byrd,
Goldenarms,
New York Dolls,
The Monks,
Sam Rivers,
The Fire Engines,
Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft,
Lower 48,
Mars,
John Cale,
Graham Central Station,
Newcleus,
Little Man,
Accadde A,
Marshall Jefferson,
Crooked Eye,
Eli Mardock,
Moby Grape,
ABBA, ABBA, ABBA, ABBA.
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.