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 Fiji and from Sao Paulo.
But I was there.
I was there in 1976.
I was there at the first Chic show in New York.
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 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Mexico City and Manchester.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Tokyo 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 guitar 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 Fat Boys to the crunk 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 Television. All the underground hits.
All Q65 tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every De La Soul & Jungle Brothers record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal techno hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying an organ and an arpeggiator and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Godley & Creme record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought an oboe.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a rhodes.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Gang Gang Dance,
Warsaw,
The Monks,
ABC,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Radiohead,
LL Cool J,
Junior Murvin,
Alphaville,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
Slick Rick,
The Cosmic Jokers,
Yusef Lateef,
Deadbeat,
Lakeside,
Scrapy,
The Shadows of Knight,
Cheater Slicks,
DJ Sneak,
Sly & The Family Stone,
Echospace,
New Age Steppers,
Girls At Our Best!,
Peter & Gordon,
The Human League,
Aswad,
Gregory Isaacs,
Bang On A Can,
Donald Byrd,
Ituana,
Swans,
Bill Near,
Ten City,
Lower 48,
London Community Gospel Choir,
Grauzone,
Blake Baxter,
Subhumans,
Arcadia,
Donny Hathaway,
Graham Central Station,
kango's stein massive,
Ornette Coleman,
Robert Wyatt,
Underground Resistance,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
Sun Ra,
This Heat,
Quadrant,
Goldenarms,
Mandrill,
The Happenings,
Anthony Braxton,
Outsiders,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
Lalo Schifrin,
The Monochrome Set,
Sarah Menescal,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
Soulsonic Force,
Pagans,
Shoche,
Dawn Penn, Dawn Penn, Dawn Penn, Dawn Penn.
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.