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 Shanghai.
But I was there.
I was there in 1962.
I was there at the first Guess Who show in Winnipeg.
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 1963 to 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Jakarta and New York.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Glasgow 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 clarinet 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 Sly & The Family Stone to the electroclash 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 Von Mondo. All the underground hits.
All New Order tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every the Bar-Kays record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal funk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a güiro and a synthesizer and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Flash Fearless record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a rhodes.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a linndrum.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Gabor Szabo,
The Knickerbockers,
Ice-T,
The Associates,
The Last Poets,
Sound Behaviour,
The New Christs,
John Cale,
Davy DMX,
Traffic Nightmare,
The J.B.'s,
Larry & the Blue Notes,
The Offenders,
Sun Ra,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Juan Atkins,
Radiohead,
Rekid,
Groovy Waters,
Camberwell Now,
Electric Prunes,
Bronski Beat,
The Star Department,
Neil Young,
Avey Tare,
Blossom Toes,
Hardrive,
Agitation Free,
Joy Division,
The Velvet Underground,
Masters at Work,
Lou Christie,
AZ,
Desert Stars,
Essential Logic,
Nas,
8 Eyed Spy,
The Pretty Things,
Marmalade,
Flipper,
It's A Beautiful Day,
Ash Ra Tempel,
Circle Jerks,
The Mighty Diamonds,
The Wake,
Scratch Acid,
The Moleskins,
MDC,
the Human League,
Soulsonic Force,
Neu!,
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
Mad Mike,
Adolescents,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Von Mondo,
Index,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
The Young Rascals,
The Smoke,
Dorothy Ashby,
London Community Gospel Choir,
Franke, Franke, Franke, Franke.
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.