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 Cape Verde and from Toronto.
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 1963 to 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Toronto and Mexico City.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Jakarta 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 1977 at the first Human League practice in a loft in Sheffield.
I was working on the theremin sounds with much patience.
I was there when Michael McDonald 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 Robert Görl to the jazz kids.
I played it at the Astoria.
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 Judy Mowatt. All the underground hits.
All The Toasters tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Zero Boys 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 '80s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a mellotron and a güiro and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a 808.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Duran Duran,
Faust,
Rotary Connection,
In Retrospect,
Bluetip,
Kango’s Stein Massive,
Buzzcocks,
Popol Vuh,
The Seeds,
Warsaw,
Letta Mbulu,
The Selecter,
Lou Christie,
Godley & Creme,
Accadde A,
the Germs,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
The Toasters,
The Grass Roots,
Sonny Sharrock,
Fatback Band,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
The Modern Lovers,
The Sonics,
Zapp,
Joensuu 1685,
Heaven 17,
K-Klass,
10cc,
Pharoah Sanders,
Scientists,
Robert Hood,
Deakin,
Eden Ahbez,
Brand Nubian,
Throbbing Gristle,
Glambeats Corp.,
Althea and Donna,
Average White Band,
Fugazi,
The Fuzztones,
The Angels of Light,
Barry Ungar,
Frankie Knuckles,
Isaac Hayes,
Gian Franco Pienzio,
Gabor Szabo,
Eric Dolphy,
Anthony Braxton,
Robert Wyatt,
Marc Almond,
D'Angelo,
Judy Mowatt,
ABBA,
Lalann,
Yusef Lateef,
Sparks,
MDC,
The Neon Judgement,
The Skatalites,
Bob Dylan,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon, Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon, Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon, Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon.
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.