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 United States and from Tehran.
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 1962 to 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Lille and Paris.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Mexico City 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 synthesizer sounds with much patience.
I was there when Captain Beefheart 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 Grey Daturas to the jazz 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 The Doobie Brothers. All the underground hits.
All Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Bootsy's Rubber Band record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal dance 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 synthesizer and a linndrum and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Jesus and Mary Chain record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a chamberlin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Blancmange,
Rhythm & Sound,
Alton Ellis,
Khruangbin,
DJ Style,
Quantec,
The Last Poets,
Gil Scott Heron,
Barclay James Harvest,
The Divine Comedy,
Pharoah Sanders,
Iggy Pop,
Lou Reed,
The Doors,
Bobby Byrd,
Country Joe & The Fish,
Eyeless In Gaza,
Black Pus,
Model 500,
Duran Duran,
The Doobie Brothers,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
The United States of America,
Hoover,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
Avey Tare,
Patti Smith,
Moebius,
Stetsasonic,
Trumans Water,
Nation of Ulysses,
Jawbox,
Nico,
Sad Lovers and Giants,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
Unrelated Segments,
Ohio Players,
Cluster,
The J.B.'s,
Pantaleimon,
Skriet,
Fluxion,
X-102,
Pagans,
Bobby Sherman,
Tomorrow,
Funkadelic,
New York Dolls,
X-Ray Spex,
Second Layer,
The Mojo Men,
the Human League,
Malaria!,
Eli Mardock,
Ludus,
Royal Trux,
New Order,
Lakeside,
Angry Samoans,
Easy Going,
David McCallum,
Avey Tare's Slasher Flicks,
Judy Mowatt, Judy Mowatt, Judy Mowatt, Judy Mowatt.
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.