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 Botswana and from Beijing.
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 1962 to 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Johannesburg and Milan.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Bremen 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 snare 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 Mad Mike to the jazz kids.
I played it at the Spitz.
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 Bizarre Inc.. All the underground hits.
All Bootsy Collins tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Spandau Ballet record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grime hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a sitar and a chamberlin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Avey Tare record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought a linndrum.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a snare.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Average White Band,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
The Barracudas,
The Searchers,
Siglo XX,
The Five Americans,
New Age Steppers,
The Motions,
Goldenarms,
Zapp,
Lyres,
FM Einheit,
Gian Franco Pienzio,
The American Breed,
Warren Ellis,
the Soft Cell,
Quadrant,
the Slits,
It's A Beautiful Day,
This Heat,
Eric Dolphy,
Brass Construction,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Charles Mingus,
Q65,
Minutemen,
Ash Ra Tempel,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
Alton Ellis,
The Alarm Clocks,
Bronski Beat,
Dorothy Ashby,
Television Personalities,
Fela Kuti,
Sandy B,
KRS-One,
Carl Craig,
Stetsasonic,
Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx,
The Mighty Diamonds,
DJ Style,
Sparks,
Alphaville,
Radiopuhelimet,
Bobby Sherman,
Johnny Clarke,
Lakeside,
Ludus,
Funky Four + One,
Terrestrial Tones,
Can,
Rakim,
Byron Stingily,
The Vogues,
Juan Atkins,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
Tropical Tobacco,
Robert Görl,
The Fire Engines,
Sonny Sharrock,
Cluster,
the Association,
Teenage Jesus and the Jerks, Teenage Jesus and the Jerks, Teenage Jesus and the Jerks, Teenage Jesus and the Jerks.
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.