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 Finland and from Jakarta.
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 1967 to 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Salvador and Seoul.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Spokane 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 1979 at the first Second Layer practice in a loft in South London.
I was working on the 808 sounds with much patience.
I was there when Michael McDonald 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 Zapp to the dance kids.
I played it at CBGB's.
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 Metal Thangz. All the underground hits.
All Fluxion tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every June Days 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 '60s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying an oboe and a rhodes and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Royal Trux record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
DJ Sneak,
The Litter,
Rufus Thomas,
Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme,
Black Moon,
Ice-T,
MDC,
Darondo,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
The Misunderstood,
Maurizio,
Scientists,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Rotary Connection,
Brass Construction,
It's A Beautiful Day,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
Prince Buster,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
The Names,
Archie Shepp,
Bizarre Inc.,
The Smiths,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
Aswad,
Zapp,
Massinfluence,
The Zeros,
Thompson Twins,
Underground Resistance,
the Germs,
Theoretical Girls,
Bootsy's Rubber Band,
Ten City,
Pet Shop Boys,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
Oblivians,
Lebanon Hanover,
Suicide,
Los Fastidios,
Alphaville,
the Slits,
Man Eating Sloth,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
Bluetip,
The Leaves,
Country Teasers,
The Fugs,
Model 500,
PIL,
James Chance & The Contortions,
Electric Light Orchestra,
Sister Nancy,
Agent Orange,
Subhumans,
Monks,
Junior Murvin,
Peter & Gordon,
Cluster, Cluster, Cluster, Cluster.
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.