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 Paraguay and from Toronto.
But I was there.
I was there in 1971.
I was there at the first Big Star show in Memphis.
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 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Tehran and Milan.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Jakarta 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 güiro sounds with much patience.
I was there when Holger Czukay 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 New Age Steppers to the disco kids.
I played it at the Roxy.
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 Scrapy. All the underground hits.
All David Bowie tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Average White Band 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 '80s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a 808 and a spring reverb and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Zero Boys record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your arpeggiator and bought an arpeggiator.
I hear that you and your band have sold your arpeggiator and bought an arpeggiator.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Kings Of Tomorrow,
Simply Red,
Schoolly D,
Make Up,
Hot Snakes,
Eurythmics,
Boz Scaggs,
cv313,
JFA,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
The Barracudas,
8 Eyed Spy,
Flamin' Groovies,
Clear Light,
Basic Channel,
Skaos,
Alton Ellis,
Procol Harum,
Fifty Foot Hose,
Terrestrial Tones,
Country Teasers,
Sex Pistols,
The Divine Comedy,
Chris Corsano,
Nirvana,
Au Pairs,
Piero Umiliani,
Organ,
Robert Görl,
Depeche Mode,
Arab on Radar,
Reagan Youth,
Deepchord,
The Associates,
Quantec,
Ronnie Foster,
H. Thieme,
Icehouse,
Peter & Gordon,
The Cowsills,
Tropical Tobacco,
Easy Going,
The Music Machine,
Shoche,
Delon & Dalcan,
World's Most,
Camberwell Now,
Junior Murvin,
Delta 5,
Bill Near,
Albert Ayler,
The Modern Lovers,
The Martian,
Wolf Eyes,
Erykah Badu,
Infiniti,
Suicide,
Lightning Bolt,
The Wake,
Lakeside,
The Knickerbockers,
Newcleus,
Sixth Finger,
Vladislav Delay, Vladislav Delay, Vladislav Delay, Vladislav Delay.
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.