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 Uganda and from Jakarta.
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 1969 to 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in New York and Lyon.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Lyon 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 1967 at the first Rodriguez practice in a loft in Detroit.
I was working on the linndrum sounds with much patience.
I was there when David Bowie 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 Cameo to the punk 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 The Kinks. All the underground hits.
All Easy Going tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Scientists record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grime hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying an arpeggiator and a synthesizer and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Zapp record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a rhodes.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a spring reverb.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
Blancmange,
Sly & The Family Stone,
Davy DMX,
EPMD,
The Sonics,
Lebanon Hanover,
Thinking Fellers Union Local 282,
Faust,
June Days,
Inner City,
The Evens,
The Raincoats,
New Age Steppers,
Zapp,
The Residents,
The Fall,
Red Lorry Yellow Lorry,
Sun City Girls,
The Neon Judgement,
Little Man,
Interpol,
Section 25,
Marshall Jefferson,
The Gladiators,
Larry & the Blue Notes,
Patti Smith,
The Index,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
Angry Samoans,
The Smoke,
Grauzone,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
Mandrill,
Gerry Rafferty,
Harmonia,
LL Cool J,
Bronski Beat,
Freddie Wadling,
Erasure,
Rekid,
The Tremeloes,
Kas Product,
Be Bop Deluxe,
Masters at Work,
Skarface,
Pulsallama,
Aloha Tigers,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Jawbox,
Icehouse,
The Searchers,
Chris Corsano,
The Smiths,
Tubeway Army,
The Trojans,
The Mummies,
Malaria!,
the Normal,
Boz Scaggs,
Japan,
Roy Ayers Ubiquity, Roy Ayers Ubiquity, Roy Ayers Ubiquity, Roy Ayers Ubiquity.
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.