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 Taiwan and from Copenhagen.
But I was there.
I was there in 1979.
I was there at the first Josef K show in Edinburgh.
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 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Seoul and Seoul.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Stockholm 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 1987 at the first Nirvana practice in a loft in Seattle.
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 Derrick May to the funk 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 Soul Sonic Force. All the underground hits.
All June of 44 tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Harpers Bizarre 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 '70s.
I hear you're buying a rhodes and a chamberlin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a David Axelrod record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Gastr Del Sol,
Mad Mike,
Magma,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
Toni Rubio,
Nils Olav,
Soulsonic Force,
The Blues Magoos,
Clear Light,
Camouflage,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
Warsaw,
John Cale,
Eli Mardock,
New Age Steppers,
Isaac Hayes,
Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson,
Marc Romboy vs. Booka Shade,
Gichy Dan,
a-ha,
Radiopuhelimet,
The Index,
KRS-One,
One Last Wish,
Symarip,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
Derrick May,
ABC,
Morten Harket,
K-Klass,
Mission of Burma,
UT,
Livin' Joy,
Man Eating Sloth,
Art Ensemble Of Chicago,
Connie Case,
The Red Krayola,
Maleditus Sound,
D'Angelo,
Altered Images,
Glenn Branca,
Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft,
The Monochrome Set,
The Electric Prunes,
Alison Limerick,
The Last Poets,
Yusef Lateef,
Prince Buster,
Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme,
Stiv Bators,
Cal Tjader,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
Jeff Lynne,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
Moby Grape,
Oppenheimer Analysis,
Second Layer,
Gang of Four,
Avey Tare,
The Dead C, The Dead C, The Dead C, The Dead C.
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.