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 Estonia and from Mexico City.
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 1968 to 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Columbus and Sao Paulo.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Manchester 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 Mistral practice in a loft in Amsterdam.
I was working on the guitar sounds with much patience.
I was there when Captain Beefheart 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 Bob Dylan to the dance 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 Flipper. All the underground hits.
All The Moody Blues tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Marvin Gaye 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 '70s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a harpsichord and a linndrum and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a New Age Steppers record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a mellotron.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Brass Construction,
Frankie Knuckles,
Underground Resistance,
The Standells,
Smog,
Q and Not U,
Letta Mbulu,
Judy Mowatt,
Leonard Cohen,
David McCallum,
Chris & Cosey,
Sugar Minott,
The Misunderstood,
Cameo,
R.M.O.,
Zapp,
Negative Approach,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
Organ,
Sun Ra,
Massinfluence,
The Count Five,
Sunsets and Hearts,
The Move,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
Delon & Dalcan,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Harpers Bizarre,
Eric Dolphy,
Kayak,
B.T. Express,
Blancmange,
Electric Light Orchestra,
John Foxx,
Brothers Johnson,
the Fania All-Stars,
Kings Of Tomorrow,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Au Pairs,
Lou Christie,
Dual Sessions,
Radiohead,
Minor Threat,
Blossom Toes,
Adolescents,
New York Dolls,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
OOIOO,
Ultravox,
John Holt,
Gong,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
Icehouse,
Ponytail,
Scion,
New Order,
Liliput,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
Faraquet,
Ice-T,
Lonnie Liston Smith, Lonnie Liston Smith, Lonnie Liston Smith, Lonnie Liston Smith.
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.