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 Indonesia and from Milan.
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 1966 to 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Glasgow and Johannesburg.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Paris 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 2001 at the first Tiga practice in a loft in Montreal.
I was working on the linndrum 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 The Last Poets to the grime 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 Sugar Minott. All the underground hits.
All Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Moss Icon record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal dance hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a harpsichord and a theremin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a mellotron.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a theremin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Peter and Kerry,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
Sunsets and Hearts,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
Kurtis Blow,
Public Image Ltd.,
The Techniques,
Guru Guru,
Roxy Music,
Kerrie Biddell,
Anakelly,
The Dave Clark Five,
Bad Manners,
Prince Buster,
Johnny Clarke,
48th St. Collective,
Zapp,
the Slits,
The Smoke,
Matthew Halsall,
Ronnie Foster,
Lakeside,
Alison Limerick,
Kool Moe Dee,
MDC,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
Al Stewart,
Kayak,
Warren Ellis,
Marine Girls,
Oblivians,
Arab on Radar,
Magazine,
The Residents,
Cybotron,
Parry Music,
Janne Schatter,
Wings,
Gil Scott Heron,
Mark Hollis,
Von Mondo,
Supertramp,
Boogie Down Productions,
Isaac Hayes,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
CMW,
Lou Reed,
Little Man,
Lyres,
New Order,
The Count Five,
Flipper,
The Cure,
Half Japanese,
Dark Day,
The Peanut Butter Conspiracy,
The Selecter,
Sixth Finger,
Sound Behaviour,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
Man Eating Sloth,
Sight & Sound,
Robert Görl, Robert Görl, Robert Görl, Robert Görl.
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.