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 United States 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 1969 to 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Woodstock and Calgary.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Lyon 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 Human League practice in a loft in Sheffield.
I was working on the rhodes sounds with much patience.
I was there when Lou Reed 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 Darondo to the rap kids.
I played it at Trash.
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 Todd Terry. All the underground hits.
All Scrapy tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Associates 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 '60s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying an organ and a 808 and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Banda Bassotti record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a rhodes.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Howard Jones,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
The Beau Brummels,
Skarface,
Trumans Water,
Michelle Simonal,
Sun City Girls,
Tommy Roe,
Tom Boy,
Shuggie Otis,
The Gun Club,
Boz Scaggs,
Gil Scott Heron,
Fad Gadget,
Sunsets and Hearts,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
Accadde A,
cv313,
X-102,
Marine Girls,
Aural Exciters,
Vainqueur,
Hardrive,
The Mighty Diamonds,
Urselle,
Swans,
Parry Music,
Ludus,
Isaac Hayes,
The Wake,
Country Joe & The Fish,
Grandmaster Flash,
Radio Birdman,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Leonard Cohen,
Depeche Mode,
Cabaret Voltaire,
In Retrospect,
Monks,
Archie Shepp,
Soul II Soul,
a-ha,
T. Rex,
MC5,
The Young Rascals,
Yusef Lateef,
Bootsy Collins,
Sixth Finger,
Reuben Wilson,
The Index,
JFA,
OOIOO,
Man Parrish,
Blossom Toes,
Bang On A Can,
Piero Umiliani,
Don Cherry,
Lightning Bolt,
Henry Cow,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
EPMD,
Arab on Radar,
8 Eyed Spy,
Pantaleimon, Pantaleimon, Pantaleimon, Pantaleimon.
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.