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 Kenya and from Columbus.
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 1960 to 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in London and Manchester.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Lyon 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 1983 at the first Art of Noise practice in a loft in London.
I was working on the sitar 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 Scrapy to the rock 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 Big Daddy Kane. All the underground hits.
All Camberwell Now tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Suicide 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 '60s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a harpsichord and a rhodes and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Fad Gadget record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a chamberlin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought an oboe.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Lower 48,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
The Barracudas,
Swell Maps,
Jacques Brel,
Flamin' Groovies,
Malaria!,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
Vladislav Delay,
Delta 5,
Kenny Larkin,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
Scott Walker,
Alison Limerick,
Sugar Minott,
Minutemen,
Aloha Tigers,
Alphaville,
Marvin Gaye,
Warsaw,
Magazine,
Mary Jane Girls,
Vainqueur,
Max Romeo,
Terry Callier,
Nico,
New Age Steppers,
Pantaleimon,
Cymande,
Excepter,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Gerry Rafferty,
The New Christs,
Model 500,
Moss Icon,
Q and Not U,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
The Flesh Eaters,
Alton Ellis,
Bobby Byrd,
Supertramp,
The Stooges,
Lindisfarne,
Gong,
Deadbeat,
U.S. Maple,
Suburban Knight,
Joyce Sims,
Fat Boys,
Barry Ungar,
Art Ensemble Of Chicago,
Sad Lovers and Giants,
Angels of Light & Akron/Family,
Dual Sessions,
Accadde A,
Leonard Cohen,
Neil Young,
Davy DMX,
Magma,
New York Dolls, New York Dolls, New York Dolls, New York Dolls.
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.