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 Georgia and from Milan.
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 1965 to 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Milan and Copenhagen.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school London 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 1973 at the first Television practice in a loft in New York.
I was working on the organ 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 Lakeside to the grime kids.
I played it at the 40 Watt.
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 Soul II Soul. All the underground hits.
All Scrapy tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Buckinghams record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal disco hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a guitar and a marimba and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Marine Girls record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a mellotron.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a rhodes.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Victims,
F. McDonald,
Joensuu 1685,
The Moody Blues,
Soulsonic Force,
The Young Rascals,
Matthew Halsall,
MDC,
Sexual Harrassment,
Warren Ellis,
Traffic Nightmare,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
Derrick Morgan,
Aaron Thompson,
Aloha Tigers,
Ornette Coleman,
Lalann,
Cybotron,
Judy Mowatt,
Popol Vuh,
Black Bananas,
Wire,
Archie Shepp,
Clear Light,
Cymande,
Warsaw,
Anthony Braxton,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
Section 25,
Jandek,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Crispy Ambulance,
The American Breed,
Accadde A,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Byron Stingily,
Erasure,
Sad Lovers and Giants,
Ash Ra Tempel,
Banda Bassotti,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
Sound Behaviour,
Electric Light Orchestra,
Public Image Ltd.,
Massinfluence,
Groovy Waters,
Sun City Girls,
Pole,
Robert Hood,
The Dead C,
Kurtis Blow,
Stockholm Monsters,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
Lakeside,
DNA,
La Düsseldorf,
Mantronix,
Intrusion,
The Techniques,
Schoolly D,
Pagans,
Kenny Larkin,
Animal Collective, Animal Collective, Animal Collective, Animal Collective.
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.