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 Angola and from Milan.
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 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Halifax and Houston.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Paris 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 1978 at the first Visage practice in a loft in London.
I was working on the güiro 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 Rod Modell to the disco kids.
I played it at the 40 Watt.
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 Real Kids. All the underground hits.
All Ten City tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Subhumans record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rock hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a güiro and a snare and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Cramps record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a snare.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Techniques,
The Trojans,
Barrington Levy,
Fear,
Minnie Riperton,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
Bob Dylan,
The Cosmic Jokers,
Dave Gahan,
Letta Mbulu,
James Chance & The Contortions,
a-ha,
Rosa Yemen,
Richard Hell and the Voidoids,
Eurythmics,
The Divine Comedy,
Skaos,
Grandmaster Flash,
Anakelly,
Fluxion,
Kurtis Blow,
Mantronix,
Joyce Sims,
The Pretty Things,
Flamin' Groovies,
Kerrie Biddell,
Man Parrish,
Delta 5,
Altered Images,
Toni Rubio,
Big Daddy Kane,
New Age Steppers,
Pierre Henry,
Silicon Teens,
Sandy B,
The Birthday Party,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
Shuggie Otis,
Bad Manners,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
Lyres,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
The Leaves,
Scion,
Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane,
Reagan Youth,
June Days,
China Crisis,
Rufus Thomas,
Marvin Gaye,
Freddie Wadling,
Thee Headcoats,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
Kango’s Stein Massive,
Japan,
Man Eating Sloth,
Ralphi Rosario,
Barclay James Harvest,
Aloha Tigers,
Graham Central Station,
Funky Four + One,
The Moleskins,
Isaac Hayes, Isaac Hayes, Isaac Hayes, Isaac Hayes.
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.