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 Zambia and from Shanghai.
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 1964 to 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Mexico City and New York.
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 rhodes sounds with much patience.
I was there when Michael McDonald 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 Radio Birdman to the disco 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 the Soft Cell. All the underground hits.
All The Alarm Clocks tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Gap Band record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal dance 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 linndrum and an oboe and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Ajijia Myrayebe record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a sitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Aaron Thompson,
Nation of Ulysses,
Angels of Light & Akron/Family,
Toni Rubio,
Bobbi Humphrey,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
Y Pants,
Rotary Connection,
Gastr Del Sol,
Bizarre Inc.,
Shuggie Otis,
Boogie Down Productions,
The Saints,
Man Eating Sloth,
The Victims,
Ralphi Rosario,
Cabaret Voltaire,
K-Klass,
The Raincoats,
The Cosmic Jokers,
Strawberry Alarm Clock,
Desert Stars,
FM Einheit,
The Shadows of Knight,
Tomorrow,
Altered Images,
The Selecter,
Urselle,
Silicon Teens,
Camouflage,
Buzzcocks,
Robert Wyatt,
Ten City,
Index,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
Television Personalities,
Animal Collective,
Yazoo,
Idris Muhammad,
Outsiders,
Jandek,
This Heat,
kango's stein massive,
Skaos,
the Germs,
Chris & Cosey,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
Television,
The Standells,
Wire,
Faust,
The Young Rascals,
Bronski Beat,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
David McCallum,
Cecil Taylor,
The Walker Brothers,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
The Blackbyrds,
Max Romeo,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog, Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog, Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog, Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog.
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.