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 Philippines and from London.
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 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Mumbai and Accra.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Milan 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 1970 at the first Onyeabor practice in a loft in Enugu.
I was working on the mellotron 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 Blake Baxter to the rock 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 Qualms. All the underground hits.
All The Fugs tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Kinks record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rap hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a rhodes and a guitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Moss Icon record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought an organ.
I hear that you and your band have sold your organ and bought a sitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Aaron Thompson,
Camberwell Now,
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
The Mummies,
Al Stewart,
Matthew Halsall,
Joey Negro,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Lungfish,
Subhumans,
Japan,
Brick,
Basic Channel,
Ituana,
Patti Smith,
Minutemen,
The New Christs,
Sound Behaviour,
Groovy Waters,
The Wake,
The Sisters of Mercy,
Arthur Verocai,
Tom Boy,
The Remains,
Zapp,
Rapeman,
The Gladiators,
Moss Icon,
The Gap Band,
Agent Orange,
World's Most,
The Walker Brothers,
the Association,
Outsiders,
Model 500,
The Gories,
Juan Atkins,
Kool Moe Dee,
DJ Sneak,
Sister Nancy,
Roger Hodgson,
LL Cool J,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
Television Personalities,
Eve St. Jones,
Infiniti,
Andrew Hill,
Aural Exciters,
F. McDonald,
Rotary Connection,
Johnny Osbourne,
Mary Jane Girls,
Youth Brigade,
Boogie Down Productions,
The Standells,
Minnie Riperton,
Sparks,
Spandau Ballet,
Soft Cell,
Franke,
Duran Duran, Duran Duran, Duran Duran, Duran Duran.
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.