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 Portugal and from Mumbai.
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 1961 to 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Seoul and New York.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Johannesburg 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 1984 at the first Arcadia practice in a loft in London.
I was working on the rhodes sounds with much patience.
I was there when Tom Verlaine 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 Agent Orange to the techno kids.
I played it at the Troubador.
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 Ultramagnetic MC's. All the underground hits.
All Television Personalities tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Electric Prunes record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rock hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a rhodes and an arpeggiator and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Heavy D & The Boyz record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your arpeggiator and bought a güiro.
I hear that you and your band have sold your güiro and bought an arpeggiator.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Colin Newman,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Model 500,
Amon Düül,
Whodini,
David Axelrod,
Los Fastidios,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
The Monochrome Set,
Erasure,
Tom Boy,
The Leaves,
Stereo Dub,
Ten City,
Neil Young,
Quando Quango,
Make Up,
Ice-T,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson,
Ash Ra Tempel,
Public Image Ltd.,
Faraquet,
The Music Machine,
the Bar-Kays,
In Retrospect,
Tropical Tobacco,
Slick Rick,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Television Personalities,
Ken Boothe,
X-102,
Echospace,
Rakim,
Donald Byrd,
Red Lorry Yellow Lorry,
Black Flag,
Yellowson,
Severed Heads,
The Birthday Party,
Cymande,
Siglo XX,
The Cosmic Jokers,
Eric Copeland,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
B.T. Express,
Sonny Sharrock,
Delon & Dalcan,
Roy Ayers,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
Rites of Spring,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
The Shadows of Knight,
Surgeon,
Godley & Creme,
Rapeman,
Mr. Review,
Bizarre Inc.,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
The Sonics,
ABC,
Guru Guru, Guru Guru, Guru Guru, Guru Guru.
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.