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 Libya and from Columbus.
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 1965 to 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in London and Salvador.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Calgary 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 oboe 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 Amazonics to the crunk 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 Albert Ayler. All the underground hits.
All Circle Jerks tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Yaz record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal jazz hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a güiro and an organ and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Leonard Cohen record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a spring reverb.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Sällskapet,
Swell Maps,
The Men They Couldn't Hang,
John Holt,
Technova,
Surgeon,
Tomorrow,
8 Eyed Spy,
These Immortal Souls,
Essential Logic,
Wings,
Royal Trux,
Ituana,
L. Decosne,
Shoche,
Silicon Teens,
London Community Gospel Choir,
Jeru the Damaja,
Con Funk Shun,
Peter & Gordon,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
Tommy Roe,
Dead Boys,
Rekid,
Mo-Dettes,
Smog,
Unrelated Segments,
Bluetip,
Brothers Johnson,
The Slackers,
The Moody Blues,
Harpers Bizarre,
June Days,
Cameo,
The Toasters,
FM Einheit,
The Walker Brothers,
Chris Corsano,
Todd Rundgren,
Little Man,
Soft Cell,
The Gun Club,
Danielle Patucci,
Lebanon Hanover,
Magazine,
The Pop Group,
Roxy Music,
ABBA,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
The Wake,
The Knickerbockers,
Rufus Thomas,
Minnie Riperton,
Scion,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
The Gladiators,
Joe Finger,
The Fire Engines,
Adolescents,
Jeff Lynne,
Rotary Connection, Rotary Connection, Rotary Connection, Rotary Connection.
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.