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 Guyana and from Lyon.
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 1964 to 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Spokane and Accra.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Hong Kong 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 1968 at the first Bowie practice in a loft in Bromley.
I was working on the arpeggiator sounds with much patience.
I was there when Captain Beefheart 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 David McCallum to the electroclash 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 Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds. All the underground hits.
All The Young Rascals tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Grey Daturas 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 '50s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a güiro and a rhodes and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Gerry Rafferty record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a 808.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a rhodes.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Half Japanese,
Babytalk,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
Boogie Down Productions,
Gichy Dan,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
This Heat,
Brick,
Brothers Johnson,
Susan Cadogan,
Marshall Jefferson,
Glenn Branca,
Alphaville,
Grauzone,
The Angels of Light,
LL Cool J,
Magma,
Gang Green,
Nils Olav,
H. Thieme,
The Grass Roots,
AZ,
Gang Starr,
X-Ray Spex,
Robert Hood,
E-Dancer,
Rod Modell,
Masters at Work,
Mo-Dettes,
David McCallum,
Gabor Szabo,
Minor Threat,
U.S. Maple,
Unwound,
Visage,
Main Source,
The Happenings,
John Coltrane,
Underground Resistance,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Ultra Naté,
Chrome,
Dual Sessions,
New Age Steppers,
Eve St. Jones,
Man Parrish,
Roxette,
The Evens,
Sound Behaviour,
Sandy B,
Dawn Penn,
Kerrie Biddell,
Janne Schatter,
Bobbi Humphrey,
The Techniques,
Mars,
Bob Dylan,
Avey Tare's Slasher Flicks,
Pole,
Au Pairs,
Dorothy Ashby, Dorothy Ashby, Dorothy Ashby, Dorothy Ashby.
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.