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 Zimbabwe and from Sao Paulo.
But I was there.
I was there in 1977.
I was there at the first Mistral show in Amsterdam.
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 1968 to 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Manila and Houston.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Accra 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 arpeggiator 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 New Order to the crunk 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 Isaac Hayes. All the underground hits.
All X-Ray Spex tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Dual Sessions record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rap hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a theremin and a synthesizer and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Dennis Brown record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your clarinet and bought a chamberlin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a clarinet.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Golliwogs,
Jesper Dahlback,
Soulsonic Force,
AZ,
Spoonie Gee,
the Slits,
Jerry's Kids,
KRS-One,
Sarah Menescal,
David Axelrod,
Delta 5,
The Sonics,
Jerry Gold Smith,
Eddi Front,
Roy Ayers Ubiquity,
Prince Buster,
Fad Gadget,
Ken Boothe,
The Knickerbockers,
Avey Tare,
Sunsets and Hearts,
Pole,
Section 25,
Kings Of Tomorrow,
Roger Hodgson,
Animal Collective,
Eric Copeland,
Sonny Sharrock,
Cheater Slicks,
Erykah Badu,
Unrelated Segments,
Brand Nubian,
Visage,
Amon Düül,
Peter & Gordon,
Urselle,
Lakeside,
The Alarm Clocks,
Eric B and Rakim,
Josef K,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
The Remains,
Joe Finger,
Liaisons Dangereuses,
Dual Sessions,
Bluetip,
Minor Threat,
Arcadia,
Johnny Clarke,
The Fire Engines,
In Retrospect,
Lungfish,
Terry Callier,
Albert Ayler,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
Larry & the Blue Notes,
Negative Approach,
The Sound,
Funkadelic,
Mars,
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band, The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band, The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band, The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band.
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.