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 Benin and from Copenhagen.
But I was there.
I was there in 1971.
I was there at the first Selda show in Istanbul.
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 1962 to 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Woodstock and Bremen.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Tehran 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 Mistral practice in a loft in Amsterdam.
I was working on the oboe 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 The Pretty Things to the grime kids.
I played it at Cafe Wha.
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 Yaz. All the underground hits.
All The Wake tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Ken Boothe record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal punk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a rhodes and a güiro 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 rhodes and bought an organ.
I hear that you and your band have sold your organ and bought a rhodes.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Frankie Knuckles,
Bush Tetras,
Youth Brigade,
Easy Going,
Wally Richardson,
Sad Lovers and Giants,
JFA,
the Germs,
The Cosmic Jokers,
Donny Hathaway,
Rosa Yemen,
The Cramps,
U.S. Maple,
Jeff Mills,
Bizarre Inc.,
Thinking Fellers Union Local 282,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
Niagra,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
Mary Jane Girls,
Marc Almond,
The Motions,
Yaz,
Aswad,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
New Order,
Lebanon Hanover,
Wolf Eyes,
Moebius,
Simply Red,
A Flock of Seagulls,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Arcadia,
Depeche Mode,
Kurtis Blow,
Zero Boys,
New Age Steppers,
Metal Thangz,
Dark Day,
Avey Tare's Slasher Flicks,
Magma,
Boredoms,
Television,
The Dirtbombs,
Whodini,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
The Zeros,
Groovy Waters,
These Immortal Souls,
Hashim,
James Chance & The Contortions,
London Community Gospel Choir,
Spoonie Gee,
Tom Boy,
The Slits,
Unwound,
Bootsy's Rubber Band,
The Fire Engines,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra, Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra, Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra, Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra.
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.