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 Indonesia and from Lagos.
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 1966 to 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in New York and Toronto.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Hong Kong 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 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 Spandau Ballet to the funk 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 Easy Going. All the underground hits.
All Grauzone tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Wire record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal jazz 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 chamberlin and a marimba and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Outsiders record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought a marimba.
I hear that you and your band have sold your marimba and bought a snare.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Mary Jane Girls,
Gong,
Porter Ricks,
Infiniti,
Donald Byrd,
The Gap Band,
Rod Modell,
The Velvet Underground,
Susan Cadogan,
Jacob Miller,
Nik Kershaw,
Prince Buster,
The Misunderstood,
The Selecter,
Lyres,
Gang Starr,
The Stooges,
Ken Boothe,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
Simply Red,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Strawberry Alarm Clock,
Vladislav Delay,
Massinfluence,
In Retrospect,
The Busters,
The Moleskins,
Black Bananas,
Todd Rundgren,
The Black Dice,
Spandau Ballet,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Flash Fearless,
The Kinks,
Nation of Ulysses,
James White and The Blacks,
Grauzone,
Altered Images,
The Happenings,
Supertramp,
Joe Finger,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Mission of Burma,
CMW,
The Tremeloes,
Morten Harket,
Mad Mike,
World's Most,
Rotary Connection,
Intrusion,
Agitation Free,
the Germs,
Sixth Finger,
Public Image Ltd.,
Underground Resistance,
The Fuzztones,
Terrestrial Tones,
Sexual Harrassment,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five, Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five, Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five, Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five.
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.