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 Stockholm.
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 1968 to 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Taipei and Accra.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Mumbai 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 1971 at the first Big Star practice in a loft in Memphis.
I was working on the linndrum 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 Lucky Dragons to the disco kids.
I played it at Cafe Wha.
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 The Last Poets. All the underground hits.
All Roy Ayers Ubiquity tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal crunk 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 a theremin and a snare and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Deepchord record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a theremin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Blake Baxter,
Pole,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Johnny Clarke,
Kango’s Stein Massive,
Eric Copeland,
Morten Harket,
D'Angelo,
Dorothy Ashby,
Ken Boothe,
10cc,
Graham Central Station,
Anthony Braxton,
The Victims,
Prince Buster,
Ohio Players,
The Divine Comedy,
Matthew Bourne,
Henry Cow,
Kerrie Biddell,
the Sonics,
Youth Brigade,
MDC,
Sparks,
Scion,
A Flock of Seagulls,
Sandy B,
Marshall Jefferson,
Television,
The Offenders,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Maurizio,
Johnny Osbourne,
Darondo,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
The Fire Engines,
Joey Negro,
Tears for Fears,
Fifty Foot Hose,
T. Rex,
Wasted Youth,
Joensuu 1685,
Soft Machine,
Radiopuhelimet,
John Foxx,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
Young Marble Giants,
Reagan Youth,
Alton Ellis,
Boredoms,
Porter Ricks,
T.S.O.L.,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
The United States of America,
Scratch Acid,
Albert Ayler,
The Selecter,
Red Lorry Yellow Lorry,
Ralphi Rosario,
Siglo XX,
Deepchord,
Franke,
Rotary Connection, Rotary Connection, Rotary Connection, Rotary Connection.
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.