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 Spain and from Madrid.
But I was there.
I was there in 1968.
I was there at the first Can show in Cologne.
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 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Johannesburg and Mexico City.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Winnipeg 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 808 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 Flash Fearless to the grunge 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 Q65. All the underground hits.
All Flash Fearless tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every MC5 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 '70s.
I hear you're buying a marimba and an organ and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Radiopuhelimet record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your marimba and bought a rhodes.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a marimba.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Bobby Byrd,
The Fall,
Isaac Hayes,
Sex Pistols,
Girls At Our Best!,
Fat Boys,
Echospace,
Lungfish,
Althea and Donna,
L. Decosne,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Heavy D & The Boyz,
The Human League,
Sonny Sharrock,
ABBA,
Bobby Sherman,
Don Cherry,
Joyce Sims,
Amon Düül II,
Tropical Tobacco,
Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Jesper Dahlback,
Average White Band,
John Holt,
Bootsy Collins,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
Rotary Connection,
Sad Lovers and Giants,
K-Klass,
Television Personalities,
Pantaleimon,
Easy Going,
The New Christs,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
Nas,
Mandrill,
X-Ray Spex,
Crooked Eye,
The Count Five,
DJ Style,
Duran Duran,
Bob Dylan,
The Victims,
Youth Brigade,
Curtis Mayfield,
Hot Snakes,
New Age Steppers,
Country Joe & The Fish,
Babytalk,
The Names,
X-102,
Grauzone,
Nick Fraelich,
Los Fastidios,
The Smoke,
Jeff Lynne,
Essential Logic,
Grandmaster Flash,
Simply Red, Simply Red, Simply Red, Simply Red.
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.