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 Kenya and from Cairo.
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 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Mumbai and Bologna.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Manila 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 1976 at the first Feelies practice in a loft in Haledon.
I was working on the theremin 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 Icehouse to the disco kids.
I played it at the Roxy.
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 Icehouse. All the underground hits.
All Black Moon tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Faraquet record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal disco hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s 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 Ash Ra Tempel record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought an organ.
I hear that you and your band have sold your organ and bought a theremin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Louis and Bebe Barron,
Schoolly D,
Dennis Brown,
Davy DMX,
Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines,
Main Source,
EPMD,
Brass Construction,
John Cale,
U.S. Maple,
Little Man,
the Human League,
Fela Kuti,
Marshall Jefferson,
Be Bop Deluxe,
The Tremeloes,
PIL,
Kurtis Blow,
Tears for Fears,
Piero Umiliani,
The Vogues,
Intrusion,
Rekid,
The Barracudas,
Ohio Players,
Man Eating Sloth,
The Modern Lovers,
Q65,
10cc,
Cal Tjader,
Basic Channel,
Letta Mbulu,
Oppenheimer Analysis,
The Peanut Butter Conspiracy,
Connie Case,
Soft Machine,
Black Flag,
Quadrant,
Sparks,
The Pretty Things,
Soft Cell,
Isaac Hayes,
Jacob Miller,
KRS-One,
Bobby Womack,
Niagra,
Nik Kershaw,
New Order,
Prince Buster,
Eric B and Rakim,
London Community Gospel Choir,
Eric Copeland,
The Motions,
The Cosmic Jokers,
Cameo,
Accadde A,
John Holt,
The Zeros,
Sun City Girls,
The Sonics,
Eddi Front,
Visage, Visage, Visage, Visage.
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.