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 Slovenia and from Jakarta.
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 1969 to 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Woodstock and Mexico City.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Philadelphia 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 organ sounds with much patience.
I was there when David Bowie 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 Audionom to the electroclash 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 Zero Boys. All the underground hits.
All Cymande tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Ice-T 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 '70s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying an oboe and an organ and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Rahsaan Roland Kirk record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a güiro.
I hear that you and your band have sold your güiro and bought a mellotron.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Bang On A Can,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Brick,
Rosa Yemen,
Kevin Saunderson,
The Last Poets,
The Offenders,
the Soft Cell,
Rapeman,
Ash Ra Tempel,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
Quadrant,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
Massinfluence,
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band,
Gian Franco Pienzio,
Monolake,
Soul II Soul,
Con Funk Shun,
Sight & Sound,
Peter & Gordon,
Gabor Szabo,
Aural Exciters,
Colin Newman,
Ohio Players,
Lower 48,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
The Seeds,
The Walker Brothers,
Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme,
Electric Light Orchestra,
Vladislav Delay,
Chris & Cosey,
The Happenings,
Matthew Bourne,
Basic Channel,
Main Source,
Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft,
Grey Daturas,
Bluetip,
John Coltrane,
Grandmaster Flash,
The Blues Magoos,
Metal Thangz,
Tropical Tobacco,
Groovy Waters,
A Flock of Seagulls,
the Association,
John Cale,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
Country Joe & The Fish,
Kayak,
Oneida,
Wally Richardson,
Bobby Sherman,
James Chance & The Contortions,
X-101,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
The Knickerbockers,
The Cowsills,
The Durutti Column, The Durutti Column, The Durutti Column, The Durutti Column.
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.