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 India and from Philadelphia.
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 1968 to 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Taipei and Jakarta.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Manila 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 1980 at the first Cybotron practice in a loft in Detroit.
I was working on the sitar sounds with much patience.
I was there when Donald Fagen 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 Peter & Gordon to the punk kids.
I played it at the Astoria.
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 Ken Boothe. All the underground hits.
All Hashim tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Intrusion 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 '70s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a guitar and a marimba and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Zapp record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought an arpeggiator.
I hear that you and your band have sold your arpeggiator and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Harpers Bizarre,
Man Eating Sloth,
The Doobie Brothers,
Dorothy Ashby,
Bobby Womack,
David Axelrod,
Leonard Cohen,
The Martian,
Qualms,
Grauzone,
Eric Copeland,
10cc,
Marvin Gaye,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
Terry Callier,
Pulsallama,
Bootsy's Rubber Band,
Maleditus Sound,
the Germs,
Skarface,
The Offenders,
a-ha,
Bizarre Inc.,
Man Parrish,
Pharoah Sanders,
The Golliwogs,
The Gories,
The Dave Clark Five,
Circle Jerks,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
Rites of Spring,
Unwound,
The Trojans,
Mandrill,
La Düsseldorf,
Marine Girls,
The Buckinghams,
Brothers Johnson,
The Alarm Clocks,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
D'Angelo,
Theoretical Girls,
Blancmange,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
Drexciya,
Jeff Mills,
Silicon Teens,
Kevin Saunderson,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
Eric B and Rakim,
Ultimate Spinach,
Shuggie Otis,
Tomorrow,
Talk Talk,
Roy Ayers,
Alison Limerick,
KRS-One,
Masters at Work,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
Oblivians,
Saccharine Trust,
Infiniti,
Franke,
Lower 48, Lower 48, Lower 48, Lower 48.
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.