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 Chile and from Calgary.
But I was there.
I was there in 1980.
I was there at the first Cybotron show in Detroit.
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 1960 to 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Jakarta and Manila.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Glasgow 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 mellotron sounds with much patience.
I was there when Nile Rodgers 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 The Mummies to the rock kids.
I played it at Cafe Wha.
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 Invisible. All the underground hits.
All Slick Rick tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Thinking Fellers Union Local 282 record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal punk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a 808 and a güiro and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a One Last Wish record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a linndrum.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Crooked Eye,
Crime,
Graham Central Station,
Sonny Sharrock,
Duran Duran,
Liaisons Dangereuses,
Eric B and Rakim,
Glambeats Corp.,
a-ha,
Joe Smooth,
Absolute Body Control,
Skarface,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
Art Ensemble Of Chicago,
The Mighty Diamonds,
Second Layer,
Peter and Kerry,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
Blossom Toes,
Aswad,
Rapeman,
Con Funk Shun,
Livin' Joy,
The Selecter,
Scientists,
Moby Grape,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Teenage Jesus and the Jerks,
Quando Quango,
Soulsonic Force,
Cecil Taylor,
Carl Craig,
Kaleidoscope,
AZ,
Crash Course in Science,
Make Up,
The Litter,
the Slits,
Eric Dolphy,
Reagan Youth,
Cymande,
Jimmy McGriff,
Rufus Thomas,
Althea and Donna,
Mo-Dettes,
Angels of Light & Akron/Family,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
June of 44,
Bobbi Humphrey,
Qualms,
The Fire Engines,
Ash Ra Tempel,
Index,
Dead Boys,
Lucky Dragons,
Young Marble Giants,
Vladislav Delay,
China Crisis, China Crisis, China Crisis, China Crisis.
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.