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 the UAE and from Paris.
But I was there.
I was there in 1979.
I was there at the first Josef K show in Edinburgh.
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 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Bologna and Delhi.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Milan 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 1976 at the first Chic practice in a loft in New York.
I was working on the organ 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 Kayak to the techno 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 Motions. All the underground hits.
All The Jesus and Mary Chain tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Nation of Ulysses record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal punk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a spring reverb and a guitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Lebanon Hanover record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a mellotron.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a spring reverb.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Grass Roots,
Heaven 17,
Skarface,
Babytalk,
Laurel Aitken,
Bobbi Humphrey,
The Busters,
Lee Hazlewood,
Television Personalities,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
Toni Rubio,
Minny Pops,
Ultimate Spinach,
Schoolly D,
Liaisons Dangereuses,
Das Ding,
Television,
Neil Young,
Roy Ayers,
The Victims,
Theoretical Girls,
Scion,
Susan Cadogan,
UT,
Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane,
Jeff Mills,
The Selecter,
Sun City Girls,
Jerry Gold Smith,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
The Shadows of Knight,
Eden Ahbez,
Fela Kuti,
Minutemen,
Amazonics,
Hot Snakes,
Pantaleimon,
Smog,
New Age Steppers,
The Cowsills,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Kevin Saunderson,
Echospace,
the Slits,
Aural Exciters,
Section 25,
Bill Wells,
Junior Murvin,
The Slackers,
Big Daddy Kane,
Can,
Ossler,
Steve Hackett,
Kayak,
Pharoah Sanders,
U.S. Maple,
Intrusion,
The Fortunes,
The Fugs,
Robert Hood,
The Golliwogs,
Infiniti, Infiniti, Infiniti, Infiniti.
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.