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 Oman and from Lyon.
But I was there.
I was there in 1977.
I was there at the first Mistral show in Amsterdam.
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 1967 to 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Shanghai and Bologna.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Calgary 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 snare 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 Junior Murvin 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 Brick. All the underground hits.
All Don Cherry tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Terry Callier 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 '50s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying an organ and a guitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Lebanon Hanover record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a linndrum.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a mellotron.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Dennis Brown,
Kerrie Biddell,
Kool Moe Dee,
Jacob Miller,
Henry Cow,
Ken Boothe,
Unrelated Segments,
Smog,
Carl Craig,
Qualms,
Todd Rundgren,
The Gap Band,
Lower 48,
The Skatalites,
Swell Maps,
Chris & Cosey,
The Index,
Magazine,
Bronski Beat,
Lindisfarne,
Dead Boys,
Bauhaus,
Angry Samoans,
Soft Machine,
Gian Franco Pienzio,
X-102,
Bush Tetras,
Glambeats Corp.,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
Public Enemy,
Index,
Joe Finger,
Guru Guru,
Sight & Sound,
Ronnie Foster,
Matthew Bourne,
Spandau Ballet,
Kevin Saunderson,
Rhythm & Sound,
Brass Construction,
Fort Wilson Riot,
The Doobie Brothers,
Gabor Szabo,
Soulsonic Force,
Marc Almond,
Cabaret Voltaire,
Don Cherry,
Dave Gahan,
The Velvet Underground,
Visage,
Todd Terry,
MC5,
A Flock of Seagulls,
Blake Baxter,
Porter Ricks,
Moss Icon,
Scott Walker,
John Coltrane,
Michelle Simonal,
Joe Smooth,
Nirvana,
Patti Smith, Patti Smith, Patti Smith, Patti Smith.
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.