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 Marshall Islands and from Bremen.
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 Woodstock and Mumbai.
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 1975 at the first Throbbing Gristle practice in a loft in London.
I was working on the sitar 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 Angels of Light & Akron/Family to the jazz 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 Tropical Tobacco. All the underground hits.
All Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Marvin Gaye record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal electroclash hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a harpsichord and a spring reverb and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Freddie Wadling record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a spring reverb.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought an oboe.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Cameo,
Infiniti,
Jacques Brel,
The Alarm Clocks,
Simply Red,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Sällskapet,
Moss Icon,
The Monks,
Ponytail,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Gabor Szabo,
Jerry's Kids,
Marine Girls,
Marmalade,
Curtis Mayfield,
Derrick May,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Radiohead,
Quantec,
Smog,
Larry & the Blue Notes,
Matthew Bourne,
Alton Ellis,
David Axelrod,
Sixth Finger,
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark,
48th St. Collective,
Andrew Hill,
Swans,
Zapp,
Lalo Schifrin,
Pharoah Sanders,
The Happenings,
The Men They Couldn't Hang,
Pierre Henry,
The Smoke,
Jandek,
Anakelly,
Don Cherry,
Blancmange,
Idris Muhammad,
Supertramp,
Flipper,
Public Enemy,
Average White Band,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Erykah Badu,
The Human League,
Morten Harket,
Theoretical Girls,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
Audionom,
Letta Mbulu,
Fear,
Sister Nancy,
Skaos,
Talk Talk,
Boz Scaggs,
Eddi Front,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra, Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra, Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra, Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra.
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.