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 Chile and from Edmonton.
But I was there.
I was there in 1976.
I was there at the first Buzzcocks show in Bolton.
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 Accra and Columbus.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Mexico City 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 clarinet 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 Drexciya to the dance kids.
I played it at the Spitz.
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 Reuben Wilson. All the underground hits.
All Technova tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Drexciya record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal techno hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a synthesizer and a clarinet and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Lafayette Afro Rock Band record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your arpeggiator and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought an arpeggiator.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Jerry's Kids,
Cal Tjader,
Amon Düül II,
Jacques Brel,
Pet Shop Boys,
Q and Not U,
Wolf Eyes,
Terry Callier,
David Bowie,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
The Moleskins,
Second Layer,
The Tremeloes,
Oneida,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Mad Mike,
Roxette,
The Fire Engines,
Isaac Hayes,
Curtis Mayfield,
Supertramp,
The Neon Judgement,
T.S.O.L.,
Joey Negro,
The Young Rascals,
Anakelly,
Al Stewart,
DJ Sneak,
the Slits,
Symarip,
Unwound,
The Fuzztones,
The Index,
Livin' Joy,
Roy Ayers,
Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme,
Technova,
FM Einheit,
Byron Stingily,
Ronnie Foster,
Desert Stars,
Sunsets and Hearts,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Faust,
Alton Ellis,
Mary Jane Girls,
The Beau Brummels,
K-Klass,
Popol Vuh,
Junior Murvin,
The Motions,
Bobbi Humphrey,
Lee Hazlewood,
Delta 5,
The Fugs,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Throbbing Gristle,
Ultra Naté,
John Foxx,
Fad Gadget,
This Heat,
Public Enemy,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band, Manfred Mann's Earth Band, Manfred Mann's Earth Band, Manfred Mann's Earth Band.
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.