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 Bremen.
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 1964 to 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Beijing and Taipei.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Sao Paulo 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 spring reverb 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 Notorious Big And Bone Thugs to the techno kids.
I played it at the Crocodile.
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 Angels of Light & Akron/Family. All the underground hits.
All Nick Fraelich tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Mojo Men 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 a sitar and a theremin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Joe Smooth record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a marimba.
I hear that you and your band have sold your marimba and bought a rhodes.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Fifty Foot Hose,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
The Dead C,
The Busters,
Gang Starr,
Sister Nancy,
Inner City,
Cal Tjader,
Wally Richardson,
The Happenings,
Fatback Band,
Alton Ellis,
Roger Hodgson,
Massinfluence,
Jeff Mills,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
Fad Gadget,
10cc,
The Fuzztones,
Electric Prunes,
Japan,
Richard Hell and the Voidoids,
Danielle Patucci,
JFA,
Second Layer,
Carl Craig,
Average White Band,
Erasure,
Deakin,
Harmonia,
Jacques Brel,
DJ Style,
Slick Rick,
Bobbi Humphrey,
T. Rex,
Desert Stars,
The Smiths,
the Germs,
Banda Bassotti,
Roxette,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
The Mojo Men,
Anakelly,
Sixth Finger,
Scan 7,
Ultra Naté,
Kurtis Blow,
Blossom Toes,
LL Cool J,
X-Ray Spex,
T.S.O.L.,
Arcadia,
Barbara Tucker,
Ossler,
Zero Boys,
Patti Smith,
Hasil Adkins,
Dennis Brown,
Gian Franco Pienzio,
Flamin' Groovies,
Pantaleimon,
Nico, Nico, Nico, Nico.
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.