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 Seychelles and from Winnipeg.
But I was there.
I was there in 1987.
I was there at the first Nirvana show in Seattle.
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 1962 to 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in London and Lyon.
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 1971 at the first Big Star practice in a loft in Memphis.
I was working on the rhodes sounds with much patience.
I was there when Donald Fagen 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 Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth to the electroclash 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 DJ Sneak. All the underground hits.
All Godley & Creme tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Suburban Knight 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 chamberlin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a rhodes.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Kenny Larkin,
Gregory Isaacs,
Joe Finger,
MC5,
Khruangbin,
Magma,
Technova,
Aloha Tigers,
The Cosmic Jokers,
Drexciya,
Sonny Sharrock,
The Dave Clark Five,
Audionom,
Robert Hood,
Cal Tjader,
Sixth Finger,
Amon Düül II,
Dennis Brown,
Theoretical Girls,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Neu!,
Angels of Light & Akron/Family,
Blossom Toes,
Ludus,
Delta 5,
Fugazi,
Tropical Tobacco,
Sly & The Family Stone,
Suburban Knight,
Steve Hackett,
Marcia Griffiths,
Electric Prunes,
Delon & Dalcan,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
Kerri Chandler,
Jerry Gold Smith,
Scan 7,
Crispian St. Peters,
Banda Bassotti,
Roxy Music,
Moebius,
Ponytail,
Idris Muhammad,
Camouflage,
The Pop Group,
8 Eyed Spy,
The Raincoats,
Traffic Nightmare,
X-102,
Lalo Schifrin,
Warsaw,
cv313,
Harry Pussy,
The Jesus and Mary Chain,
Black Bananas,
Oblivians,
Bronski Beat,
Curtis Mayfield,
Excepter,
The Trojans,
Smog,
Todd Rundgren,
Suicide, Suicide, Suicide, Suicide.
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.