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 Jamaica and from Paris.
But I was there.
I was there in 1977.
I was there at the first Zapp show in Hamilton.
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 1961 to 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Sao Paulo and Philadelphia.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Mumbai 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 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 Deadbeat to the rock kids.
I played it at the Hacienda.
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 Popol Vuh. All the underground hits.
All Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every David Axelrod record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal electroclash hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a 808 and a mellotron and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Grandmaster Flash record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a theremin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Beau Brummels,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Roger Hodgson,
Au Pairs,
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark,
OOIOO,
Joy Division,
Alphaville,
Rekid,
Jesper Dahlback,
Sarah Menescal,
The J.B.'s,
Fugazi,
Vladislav Delay,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
The Slackers,
Beasts of Bourbon,
Sällskapet,
Zero Boys,
Letta Mbulu,
The Index,
Avey Tare's Slasher Flicks,
Dave Gahan,
Derrick May,
Juan Atkins,
Supertramp,
Oneida,
Youth Brigade,
Ultravox,
Grey Daturas,
The Raincoats,
Bootsy's Rubber Band,
Dual Sessions,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
Brass Construction,
ABC,
Harry Pussy,
Funky Four + One,
Donald Byrd,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
The Skatalites,
Warren Ellis,
Delta 5,
Sight & Sound,
Yellowson,
Terrestrial Tones,
Inner City,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
The Music Machine,
the Association,
Frankie Knuckles,
Bobby Sherman,
Absolute Body Control,
Louis and Bebe Barron,
Selector Dub Narcotic,
Black Sheep,
Ornette Coleman,
A Flock of Seagulls,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
Monks,
Gerry Rafferty,
Bang on a Can All-Stars, Bang on a Can All-Stars, Bang on a Can All-Stars, Bang on a Can All-Stars.
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.