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 Nauru and from Paris.
But I was there.
I was there in 1971.
I was there at the first Big Star show in Memphis.
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 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Shanghai and Beijing.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Lagos 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 1976 at the first Chic practice in a loft in New York.
I was working on the rhodes 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 Au Pairs to the rock 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 Trumans Water. All the underground hits.
All Roxy Music tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Supertramp 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 '60s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a guitar and a rhodes and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Derrick May record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a mellotron.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron 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 Dead C,
Royal Trux,
One Last Wish,
Peter & Gordon,
Wire,
The Human League,
KRS-One,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
Rufus Thomas,
The Monochrome Set,
Sonny Sharrock,
Oppenheimer Analysis,
Rhythm & Sound,
Althea and Donna,
The Vogues,
Piero Umiliani,
Intrusion,
The Gladiators,
Sandy B,
The Gories,
Marshall Jefferson,
kango's stein massive,
Severed Heads,
Deadbeat,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
Lalann,
Khruangbin,
Scientists,
Liaisons Dangereuses,
X-102,
Rod Modell,
Metal Thangz,
Cheater Slicks,
The Skatalites,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Goldenarms,
The Knickerbockers,
ABC,
Can,
Ronan,
Urselle,
John Cale,
cv313,
Yazoo,
Crime,
Brass Construction,
Rapeman,
Nick Fraelich,
Grandmaster Flash,
Oblivians,
Public Enemy,
Sexual Harrassment,
Sixth Finger,
This Heat,
Gabor Szabo,
Shuggie Otis,
Babytalk,
The Slits,
The Sonics,
Soft Machine,
Stetsasonic,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
Second Layer,
Niagra, Niagra, Niagra, Niagra.
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.