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 Guatemala and from Manila.
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 1969 to 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Portland 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 1967 at the first Rodriguez practice in a loft in Detroit.
I was working on the chamberlin sounds with much patience.
I was there when Captain Beefheart 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 Gichy Dan to the dance kids.
I played it at the 40 Watt.
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 Flipper. All the underground hits.
All Quadrant tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Siouxsie and the Banshees 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 rhodes and an arpeggiator and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Delon & Dalcan record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought an arpeggiator.
I hear that you and your band have sold your arpeggiator and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Scientists,
Sly & The Family Stone,
Spoonie Gee,
F. McDonald,
Quando Quango,
Roger Hodgson,
8 Eyed Spy,
Flash Fearless,
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band,
Sällskapet,
Amazonics,
The Buckinghams,
Sun City Girls,
Goldenarms,
Freddie Wadling,
Matthew Halsall,
Depeche Mode,
Matthew Bourne,
David Axelrod,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
Delon & Dalcan,
These Immortal Souls,
Youth Brigade,
The Doors,
Marmalade,
PIL,
Qualms,
A Certain Ratio,
Niagra,
Ice-T,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
The Young Rascals,
Dave Gahan,
Wasted Youth,
Minnie Riperton,
Patti Smith,
Roxy Music,
The Gap Band,
Stetsasonic,
AZ,
The Searchers,
Harmonia,
Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane,
Piero Umiliani,
Motorama,
Sixth Finger,
the Normal,
Prince Buster,
Babytalk,
Isaac Hayes,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
Lyres,
Parry Music,
The Birthday Party,
Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
Boz Scaggs,
Vainqueur,
Davy DMX,
Graham Central Station,
Gang of Four,
The Tremeloes,
Siglo XX,
Erykah Badu, Erykah Badu, Erykah Badu, Erykah Badu.
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.