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 Seychelles and from Spokane.
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 1967 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Seoul and Calgary.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Lille 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 mellotron sounds with much patience.
I was there when Holger Czukay 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 Sight & Sound to the disco kids.
I played it at the Astoria.
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 In Retrospect. All the underground hits.
All Oblivians tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Busters 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 '60s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying an arpeggiator and a chamberlin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a marimba.
I hear that you and your band have sold your marimba and bought a 808.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
Peter and Kerry,
Eddi Front,
Camouflage,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
Nick Fraelich,
Jesper Dahlback,
Supertramp,
Derrick Morgan,
Black Pus,
The Cosmic Jokers,
The Smoke,
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band,
Swell Maps,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
Rod Modell,
Sunsets and Hearts,
Leonard Cohen,
The Pretty Things,
Fluxion,
Lyres,
Heaven 17,
Negative Approach,
Eyeless In Gaza,
The Electric Prunes,
Franke,
Pharoah Sanders,
Wings,
Wolf Eyes,
Radio Birdman,
Loose Ends,
Marshall Jefferson,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
A Flock of Seagulls,
Vainqueur,
Tears for Fears,
Index,
Crime,
Byron Stingily,
Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane,
Country Teasers,
Von Mondo,
Sparks,
The Human League,
Be Bop Deluxe,
Tim Buckley,
London Community Gospel Choir,
The Blues Magoos,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
Whodini,
Camberwell Now,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
Outsiders,
Duran Duran,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Harmonia,
The Real Kids,
Aaron Thompson,
The Happenings,
Oneida,
Oppenheimer Analysis, Oppenheimer Analysis, Oppenheimer Analysis, Oppenheimer Analysis.
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.