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 Sao Paulo.
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 1961 to 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Cairo and Paris.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Bremen 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 Buzzcocks practice in a loft in Bolton.
I was working on the mellotron 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 Sight & Sound to the jazz kids.
I played it at the Roxy.
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 Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon. All the underground hits.
All Gichy Dan tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Index 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 '80s.
I hear you're buying a 808 and a harpsichord and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a La Düsseldorf record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a güiro.
I hear that you and your band have sold your güiro and bought a mellotron.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Robert Hood,
Brass Construction,
Delon & Dalcan,
Sunsets and Hearts,
Smog,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
The Five Americans,
John Holt,
Isaac Hayes,
Toni Rubio,
R.M.O.,
the Human League,
Neu!,
Electric Prunes,
the Association,
Silicon Teens,
The Seeds,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
Tom Boy,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Boz Scaggs,
Skriet,
The United States of America,
Loose Ends,
Kevin Saunderson,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
These Immortal Souls,
Average White Band,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
New Age Steppers,
Erasure,
The Men They Couldn't Hang,
The Sonics,
Basic Channel,
Robert Görl,
Scrapy,
Freddie Wadling,
Slave,
Frankie Knuckles,
T. Rex,
Sällskapet,
June Days,
The Electric Prunes,
Brick,
Ten City,
Sex Pistols,
Faust,
Derrick May,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
Bobby Byrd,
The Moody Blues,
Sonic Youth,
Nik Kershaw,
Rufus Thomas,
Bobby Sherman,
Half Japanese,
Ash Ra Tempel,
The Last Poets,
The Blackbyrds,
Subhumans,
The Trojans,
The Leaves, The Leaves, The Leaves, The Leaves.
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.