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 Colombia and from Accra.
But I was there.
I was there in 2001.
I was there at the first Tiga show in Montreal.
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 1966 to 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Woodstock and Salvador.
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 1971 at the first Big Star practice in a loft in Memphis.
I was working on the sitar sounds with much patience.
I was there when Robert Palmer 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 Japan to the grime 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 Index. All the underground hits.
All One Last Wish tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Joy Division record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal disco hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a chamberlin and a snare and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Fluxion record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a clarinet.
I hear that you and your band have sold your clarinet 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?
Television Personalities,
Kaleidoscope,
Popol Vuh,
Faraquet,
Brothers Johnson,
Fatback Band,
Derrick May,
Albert Ayler,
Fluxion,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
China Crisis,
Main Source,
New Age Steppers,
Parry Music,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
James White and The Blacks,
Ronnie Foster,
The Barracudas,
Saccharine Trust,
Roy Ayers,
Q and Not U,
Depeche Mode,
the Fania All-Stars,
Barclay James Harvest,
Funkadelic,
Oneida,
Ash Ra Tempel,
Sound Behaviour,
Janne Schatter,
Glenn Branca,
John Cale,
Nils Olav,
D'Angelo,
The Gun Club,
Simply Red,
The Standells,
The Fuzztones,
Public Enemy,
The New Christs,
The Move,
Carl Craig,
Spoonie Gee,
Angels of Light & Akron/Family,
Ludus,
Dorothy Ashby,
Iggy Pop,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
Sällskapet,
Pharoah Sanders,
cv313,
Minutemen,
Lee Hazlewood,
The Gories,
Stockholm Monsters,
The Doobie Brothers,
Scrapy,
The Pretty Things,
Massinfluence,
Boredoms,
Byron Stingily,
Bobby Womack,
Zapp, Zapp, Zapp, Zapp.
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.