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 Qatar and from Mexico City.
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 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Lagos and Lagos.
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 1978 at the first Visage practice in a loft in London.
I was working on the rhodes sounds with much patience.
I was there when Captain Beefheart 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 Quantec to the punk 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 Urselle. All the underground hits.
All Cymande tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every MC5 record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grime hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a synthesizer and a guitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Mummies record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought an organ.
I hear that you and your band have sold your organ and bought a spring reverb.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Lungfish,
Kas Product,
Average White Band,
In Retrospect,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
Gerry Rafferty,
Urselle,
Tubeway Army,
The Slackers,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
Bill Near,
Flipper,
Metal Thangz,
Simply Red,
James White and The Blacks,
Tom Boy,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
8 Eyed Spy,
E-Dancer,
The Buckinghams,
Art Ensemble Of Chicago,
Lyres,
Deadbeat,
Byron Stingily,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
Ponytail,
Scan 7,
Radio Birdman,
Pet Shop Boys,
LL Cool J,
Soul II Soul,
Matthew Bourne,
KRS-One,
John Coltrane,
James Chance & The Contortions,
Gang Gang Dance,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Cal Tjader,
Mr. Review,
the Fania All-Stars,
David Bowie,
Ash Ra Tempel,
Lalo Schifrin,
Duran Duran,
Wally Richardson,
Ronan,
Joey Negro,
Stetsasonic,
Sly & The Family Stone,
Negative Approach,
Oneida,
Jimmy McGriff,
Rekid,
The Last Poets,
Khruangbin,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Bizarre Inc.,
10cc,
Audionom,
The Toasters,
Richard Hell and the Voidoids,
Parry Music, Parry Music, Parry Music, Parry Music.
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.