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 Afghanistan and from Cairo.
But I was there.
I was there in 1976.
I was there at the first Chic show in New York.
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 1967 to 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Milan and Manchester.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Stockholm 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 1977 at the first Zapp practice in a loft in Hamilton.
I was working on the linndrum sounds with much patience.
I was there when Lou Reed 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 Pussy Galore 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 Danielle Patucci. All the underground hits.
All Gang Green tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Sonny Sharrock record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grunge 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 rhodes and a mellotron and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Don Cherry record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar 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?
Derrick Morgan,
H. Thieme,
Can,
The Divine Comedy,
The Dave Clark Five,
Kevin Saunderson,
Hardrive,
kango's stein massive,
Joyce Sims,
Tubeway Army,
Yusef Lateef,
Sad Lovers and Giants,
Sonic Youth,
Erasure,
Yazoo,
Zapp,
The Index,
Be Bop Deluxe,
Motorama,
Wally Richardson,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
The Beau Brummels,
Althea and Donna,
Nation of Ulysses,
Fela Kuti,
Urselle,
The Evens,
the Fania All-Stars,
The Shadows of Knight,
Outsiders,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Pierre Henry,
Das Ding,
Darondo,
Suburban Knight,
F. McDonald,
The Residents,
Inner City,
Bootsy Collins,
The Walker Brothers,
Cal Tjader,
Andrew Hill,
Hot Snakes,
Gabor Szabo,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
The Cure,
Icehouse,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
Thompson Twins,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Amon Düül II,
The Searchers,
Aloha Tigers,
The Mighty Diamonds,
Ash Ra Tempel,
Eddi Front,
The Zeros,
Slick Rick,
June of 44,
Brass Construction,
London Community Gospel Choir,
Television,
The Modern Lovers, The Modern Lovers, The Modern Lovers, The Modern Lovers.
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.