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 United States and from Halifax.
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 1969 to 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Columbus and Edmonton.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Bremen 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 1971 at the first Selda practice in a loft in Istanbul.
I was working on the snare sounds with much patience.
I was there when Robert Palmer 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 Peter and Kerry to the crunk kids.
I played it at CBGB's.
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 Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience. All the underground hits.
All Easy Going tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Gong record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal electroclash 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 harpsichord and a spring reverb and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Justin Hinds & The Dominoes record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought an organ.
I hear that you and your band have sold your organ and bought an oboe.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Bobby Womack,
Rotary Connection,
Tears for Fears,
Thinking Fellers Union Local 282,
Kurtis Blow,
Massinfluence,
The Jesus and Mary Chain,
The J.B.'s,
Jacob Miller,
the Bar-Kays,
Larry & the Blue Notes,
the Sonics,
The Detroit Cobras,
Blake Baxter,
The Misunderstood,
Agitation Free,
Wire,
T. Rex,
The Skatalites,
Shuggie Otis,
Oppenheimer Analysis,
The Electric Prunes,
Excepter,
Juan Atkins,
the Fania All-Stars,
Drive Like Jehu,
Harmonia,
Delta 5,
Gang of Four,
The Dead C,
The Dirtbombs,
Scratch Acid,
Funkadelic,
The Associates,
Whodini,
Fluxion,
Godley & Creme,
Sister Nancy,
Reuben Wilson,
Pantytec,
Bill Wells,
The Modern Lovers,
The Toasters,
Ponytail,
Kas Product,
Popol Vuh,
Delon & Dalcan,
Funky Four + One,
Nico,
Soul Sonic Force,
Soulsonic Force,
Gian Franco Pienzio,
Guru Guru,
The Techniques,
Jeff Mills,
Jesper Dahlback,
A Flock of Seagulls,
Cameo,
Drexciya,
DNA,
The Index,
Lou Christie, Lou Christie, Lou Christie, Lou Christie.
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.