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 Brunei 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 1961 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Bremen and Salvador.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Manchester 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 organ sounds with much patience.
I was there when Lou Reed 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 Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band to the grime kids.
I played it at the Troubador.
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 Index. All the underground hits.
All Jacques Brel tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Deepchord 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 '70s.
I hear you're buying a spring reverb and a clarinet 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 chamberlin and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a chamberlin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Ituana,
Deadbeat,
Peter & Gordon,
Sarah Menescal,
Malaria!,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
T.S.O.L.,
ABC,
Groovy Waters,
Gong,
Tubeway Army,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Urselle,
PIL,
Terry Callier,
Can,
Kenny Larkin,
Essential Logic,
Mission of Burma,
F. McDonald,
Gang Starr,
Fatback Band,
Glenn Branca,
Barrington Levy,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
Moebius,
Lebanon Hanover,
Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme,
Mandrill,
Fear,
Thompson Twins,
Drive Like Jehu,
Little Man,
Buzzcocks,
Sexual Harrassment,
Be Bop Deluxe,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Lalo Schifrin,
The Monochrome Set,
Davy DMX,
Minutemen,
The Mighty Diamonds,
Susan Cadogan,
Heaven 17,
Kaleidoscope,
Dorothy Ashby,
Soul II Soul,
Underground Resistance,
Joy Division,
Hoover,
Mr. Review,
Con Funk Shun,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
The Blackbyrds,
Derrick Morgan,
Interpol,
X-102,
Eddi Front,
Bobby Womack,
Ice-T,
Marshall Jefferson,
Visage,
The Human League,
Slick Rick, Slick Rick, Slick Rick, Slick Rick.
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.