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 Namibia and from Tokyo.
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 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Tokyo and Shanghai.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Johannesburg 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 oboe sounds with much patience.
I was there when Tom Verlaine 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 Bobby Sherman to the disco kids.
I played it at the Roxy.
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 The Dave Clark Five. All the underground hits.
All Kings Of Tomorrow tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Faust 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 '70s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a chamberlin and a rhodes and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Sound Behaviour record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a theremin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Faraquet,
Toni Rubio,
D'Angelo,
Harmonia,
Shoche,
Thee Headcoats,
Rosa Yemen,
Q and Not U,
The Slackers,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Funkadelic,
The Last Poets,
Sly & The Family Stone,
Arthur Verocai,
Deakin,
Bill Near,
Althea and Donna,
Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane,
Todd Rundgren,
Hardrive,
Richard Hell and the Voidoids,
The Gladiators,
Amon Düül II,
Eric B and Rakim,
Big Daddy Kane,
Boogie Down Productions,
Howard Jones,
Terry Callier,
The New Christs,
The Gap Band,
Grauzone,
The Black Dice,
John Coltrane,
The Slits,
Symarip,
FM Einheit,
Anthony Braxton,
Supertramp,
Niagra,
John Holt,
Alton Ellis,
Gang of Four,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
K-Klass,
Scrapy,
New Age Steppers,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
Magazine,
The Pop Group,
Sound Behaviour,
The Monks,
MC5,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
Matthew Halsall,
Goldenarms,
The Neon Judgement,
Hashim,
Marc Romboy vs. Booka Shade,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk, Rahsaan Roland Kirk, Rahsaan Roland Kirk, Rahsaan Roland Kirk.
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.