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 Antigua and from Bremen.
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 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Beijing and Jakarta.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Paris 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 The J.B.'s to the disco kids.
I played it at CBGB's.
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 Eyeless In Gaza. All the underground hits.
All Infiniti tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Arthur Verocai 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 '70s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a linndrum and a theremin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a La Düsseldorf record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought an organ.
I hear that you and your band have sold your organ and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Second Layer,
Matthew Bourne,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
Main Source,
Patti Smith,
The Sound,
Rod Modell,
Make Up,
Hoover,
Frankie Knuckles,
Steve Hackett,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
David Bowie,
Chris Corsano,
Michelle Simonal,
Sight & Sound,
Jimmy McGriff,
The Wake,
Lalo Schifrin,
Harpers Bizarre,
The Sisters of Mercy,
John Foxx,
Sex Pistols,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
Echo & the Bunnymen,
The Invisible,
Roxy Music,
Das Ding,
Bootsy Collins,
Basic Channel,
Infiniti,
The Red Krayola,
Monks,
Scratch Acid,
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
Fort Wilson Riot,
Hot Snakes,
Crash Course in Science,
Pylon,
Robert Hood,
The Blues Magoos,
Dual Sessions,
The Skatalites,
David McCallum,
The Velvet Underground,
Newcleus,
Pharoah Sanders,
kango's stein massive,
ABC,
The Searchers,
Be Bop Deluxe,
Janne Schatter,
Godley & Creme,
Underground Resistance,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
The Gladiators,
Drexciya,
FM Einheit,
Stereo Dub,
Tomorrow,
8 Eyed Spy,
Eric Dolphy,
Massinfluence, Massinfluence, Massinfluence, Massinfluence.
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.