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 Oman and from Bologna.
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 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Houston and London.
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 1973 at the first Television practice in a loft in New York.
I was working on the guitar 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 Kenny Larkin to the dance kids.
I played it at the Hacienda.
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 Nas. All the underground hits.
All ABBA tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Sugar Minott 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 '70s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a rhodes and a sitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Underground Resistance record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Oneida,
Dark Day,
Jacob Miller,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
Sound Behaviour,
Bobby Womack,
Josef K,
Blossom Toes,
Deadbeat,
DJ Sneak,
Sister Nancy,
Boz Scaggs,
Motorama,
Vainqueur,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
MC5,
David Axelrod,
Babytalk,
The Electric Prunes,
Wally Richardson,
Ludus,
Larry & the Blue Notes,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Stereo Dub,
Iggy Pop,
Grauzone,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Masters at Work,
La Düsseldorf,
Amon Düül II,
Cymande,
Ituana,
Connie Case,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Zapp,
Bang On A Can,
OOIOO,
Oppenheimer Analysis,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
Bobby Byrd,
Archie Shepp,
Reagan Youth,
Arthur Verocai,
Glenn Branca,
Heaven 17,
Gang Gang Dance,
The Names,
Sonic Youth,
Los Fastidios,
Eric Copeland,
Minutemen,
Erasure,
The Cosmic Jokers,
Art Ensemble Of Chicago,
The Victims,
Japan,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
Joyce Sims,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
The Cowsills,
Talk Talk,
Roger Hodgson,
kango's stein massive,
Pole, Pole, Pole, Pole.
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.