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 Trinidad & Tobago and from Accra.
But I was there.
I was there in 1979.
I was there at the first Second Layer show in South London.
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 1965 to 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Tehran and Taipei.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Winnipeg 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 1977 at the first Zapp practice in a loft in Hamilton.
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 Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud to the techno 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 Brothers Johnson. All the underground hits.
All Major Organ And The Adding Machine tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Metal Thangz record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal techno 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 chamberlin and an oboe and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Gang Green record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a güiro.
I hear that you and your band have sold your güiro and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
New Age Steppers,
Michelle Simonal,
The Skatalites,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
Nation of Ulysses,
Fluxion,
Young Marble Giants,
Zero Boys,
The Raincoats,
Selector Dub Narcotic,
The Sisters of Mercy,
Tom Boy,
Yaz,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
Roy Ayers Ubiquity,
Scrapy,
The Cure,
Prince Buster,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Swell Maps,
This Heat,
Matthew Bourne,
Derrick May,
The Kinks,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
Sällskapet,
Al Stewart,
Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson,
Brass Construction,
The Mighty Diamonds,
Brothers Johnson,
Alice Coltrane,
Carl Craig,
Neu!,
David Bowie,
Schoolly D,
X-102,
B.T. Express,
Circle Jerks,
The Count Five,
Icehouse,
Minny Pops,
Procol Harum,
Angry Samoans,
The Fuzztones,
Harpers Bizarre,
Spandau Ballet,
Television,
Shoche,
The Toasters,
Jacob Miller,
Bad Manners,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
Joensuu 1685,
Kas Product,
Agent Orange,
Black Sheep,
A Flock of Seagulls,
Tears for Fears,
Franke,
Fatback Band,
Dave Gahan, Dave Gahan, Dave Gahan, Dave Gahan.
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.