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 Brazil and from Glasgow.
But I was there.
I was there in 1978.
I was there at the first Visage show in 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 1963 to 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Seoul and Glasgow.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Tokyo 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 rhodes 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 Stooges to the jazz kids.
I played it at the Crocodile.
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 Au Pairs. All the underground hits.
All Ornette Coleman tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every MC5 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 '60s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a guitar and a synthesizer and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Eddi Front record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a güiro.
I hear that you and your band have sold your güiro and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Sonic Youth,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Larry & the Blue Notes,
New York Dolls,
Bobby Sherman,
Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane,
Aswad,
Black Sheep,
The Young Rascals,
The Walker Brothers,
Roger Hodgson,
Accadde A,
Arcadia,
Babytalk,
Louis and Bebe Barron,
Patti Smith,
Banda Bassotti,
Todd Terry,
Janne Schatter,
Kings Of Tomorrow,
Fluxion,
Aloha Tigers,
Andrew Hill,
Liaisons Dangereuses,
Tres Demented,
Funkadelic,
Popol Vuh,
Amon Düül II,
The Dave Clark Five,
Neu!,
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark,
Gichy Dan,
Nico,
China Crisis,
Glenn Branca,
Robert Görl,
Maleditus Sound,
The Sonics,
Brass Construction,
The Music Machine,
Harpers Bizarre,
Prince Buster,
James White and The Blacks,
Gil Scott Heron,
Kerri Chandler,
Massinfluence,
This Heat,
Robert Wyatt,
The United States of America,
Kas Product,
A Flock of Seagulls,
D'Angelo,
Junior Murvin,
The Cosmic Jokers,
Ornette Coleman,
The Pretty Things,
Tears for Fears,
Agitation Free,
Barclay James Harvest, Barclay James Harvest, Barclay James Harvest, Barclay James Harvest.
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.