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 Belarus and from Stockholm.
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 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Philadelphia and Milan.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Seoul 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 1973 at the first Television practice in a loft in New York.
I was working on the harpsichord sounds with much patience.
I was there when Nile Rodgers 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 Tropical Tobacco to the electroclash kids.
I played it at the 40 Watt.
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 Kool Moe Dee. All the underground hits.
All This Heat tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Flash Fearless 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 '50s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying an arpeggiator and an oboe and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Zeros record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a güiro.
I hear that you and your band have sold your güiro and bought an oboe.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Amazonics,
Jeff Mills,
Blancmange,
Nas,
Visage,
Bill Wells,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Sam Rivers,
Urselle,
The Barracudas,
Gang Starr,
Drexciya,
ABC,
Richard Hell and the Voidoids,
Ultravox,
Beasts of Bourbon,
PIL,
DJ Style,
Dennis Brown,
the Slits,
Swans,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
Mars,
Lower 48,
June of 44,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
John Cale,
The Men They Couldn't Hang,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Mo-Dettes,
Toni Rubio,
Eyeless In Gaza,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
R.M.O.,
Zero Boys,
Spandau Ballet,
Index,
The Neon Judgement,
Little Man,
Porter Ricks,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
Carl Craig,
Skarface,
Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft,
Livin' Joy,
Fluxion,
Sandy B,
Shuggie Otis,
The Litter,
Sly & The Family Stone,
Glambeats Corp.,
Section 25,
It's A Beautiful Day,
Ice-T,
The Knickerbockers,
John Coltrane,
Lou Reed,
Rod Modell, Rod Modell, Rod Modell, Rod Modell.
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.