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 Italy and from Milan.
But I was there.
I was there in 1977.
I was there at the first Human League show in Sheffield.
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 1969 to 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Woodstock and Taipei.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Toronto 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 guitar sounds with much patience.
I was there when Holger Czukay 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 L. Decosne to the rock kids.
I played it at the Troubador.
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 Andrew Hill. All the underground hits.
All Wings tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Don Cherry record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal punk 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 linndrum and a rhodes and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Derrick Morgan record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a 808.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a rhodes.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
Anthony Braxton,
Wally Richardson,
John Lydon,
Rotary Connection,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
Donny Hathaway,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Traffic Nightmare,
AZ,
Pole,
Sparks,
Bill Near,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
Crooked Eye,
Graham Central Station,
The Young Rascals,
Black Sheep,
Kerrie Biddell,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
Model 500,
Judy Mowatt,
The Count Five,
Erasure,
London Community Gospel Choir,
a-ha,
Scratch Acid,
Sonny Sharrock,
Dorothy Ashby,
B.T. Express,
Television,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
Jandek,
Minutemen,
David McCallum,
Youth Brigade,
Louis and Bebe Barron,
Mandrill,
Gang of Four,
Mantronix,
Bob Dylan,
David Bowie,
Magma,
Adolescents,
The Doobie Brothers,
Cal Tjader,
The Fugs,
Excepter,
Aural Exciters,
Aaron Thompson,
Q65,
Skarface,
Barclay James Harvest,
Kayak,
Zapp,
Bang on a Can All-Stars,
The Shadows of Knight,
MDC,
Fluxion,
Ludus,
Fear,
LL Cool J,
Brand Nubian,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
Yaz, Yaz, Yaz, Yaz.
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.