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 Tunisia and from Salvador.
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 1965 to 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Jakarta and Paris.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Mumbai 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 1976 at the first Chic practice in a loft in New York.
I was working on the linndrum 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 Barclay James Harvest to the rock kids.
I played it at CBGB's.
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 Wings. All the underground hits.
All Intrusion tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Blancmange record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal crunk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a synthesizer and a spring reverb and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Joensuu 1685 record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought a spring reverb.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a snare.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
the Normal,
The Monochrome Set,
Pagans,
The Blackbyrds,
Scion,
The Moody Blues,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
Minny Pops,
Bizarre Inc.,
Magma,
The Young Rascals,
Porter Ricks,
John Coltrane,
Junior Murvin,
Das Ding,
Negative Approach,
Royal Trux,
Warren Ellis,
Rod Modell,
The Standells,
Soul Sonic Force,
Scan 7,
FM Einheit,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
Eric Copeland,
Camouflage,
Eric B and Rakim,
Gian Franco Pienzio,
Kerrie Biddell,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
Hot Snakes,
Ken Boothe,
Deakin,
Ornette Coleman,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
Inner City,
B.T. Express,
Slave,
David McCallum,
The Slackers,
Fear,
Gil Scott Heron,
Absolute Body Control,
The Dirtbombs,
Nils Olav,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Y Pants,
The Fire Engines,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Terrestrial Tones,
Camberwell Now,
kango's stein massive,
Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson,
Eden Ahbez,
Heaven 17,
Be Bop Deluxe,
Traffic Nightmare,
The Litter, The Litter, The Litter, The Litter.
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.