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 Panama and from Manila.
But I was there.
I was there in 1971.
I was there at the first Selda show in Istanbul.
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 1964 to 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Salvador and Manchester.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Shanghai 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 rhodes 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 Ice-T to the rock 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 Don Cherry. All the underground hits.
All Bill Near tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Sound 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 '80s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a snare and an arpeggiator and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Bob Dylan record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a harpsichord.
I hear that you and your band have sold your harpsichord and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
Youth Brigade,
Lucky Dragons,
Hasil Adkins,
Monolake,
Sarah Menescal,
Skriet,
Joy Division,
Outsiders,
The Move,
Ohio Players,
Rufus Thomas,
The Black Dice,
Blancmange,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
UT,
Avey Tare,
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band,
The Moleskins,
Funky Four + One,
Los Fastidios,
Girls At Our Best!,
Mary Jane Girls,
Sunsets and Hearts,
The Offenders,
The Raincoats,
Lalann,
David Bowie,
Joe Smooth,
The Shadows of Knight,
Scratch Acid,
The Vogues,
The Birthday Party,
La Düsseldorf,
Marine Girls,
Goldenarms,
Au Pairs,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
Sugar Minott,
Tubeway Army,
Pharoah Sanders,
The Victims,
The Moody Blues,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
Cheater Slicks,
Skarface,
Harmonia,
The Busters,
Minny Pops,
Average White Band,
Porter Ricks,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
Jacques Brel,
Grauzone,
JFA,
Gregory Isaacs,
D'Angelo,
Suburban Knight,
U.S. Maple, U.S. Maple, U.S. Maple, U.S. Maple.
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.