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 Korea South and from Manchester.
But I was there.
I was there in 1978.
I was there at the first Visage show in London.
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 1966 to 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Taipei and Houston.
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 1971 at the first Big Star practice in a loft in Memphis.
I was working on the clarinet sounds with much patience.
I was there when Robert Palmer 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 Audionom to the crunk 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 Jerry's Kids. All the underground hits.
All Jerry's Kids tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Avey Tare 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 '80s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a snare and a guitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Big Daddy Kane record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your organ and bought a rhodes.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought an organ.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Reuben Wilson,
Country Teasers,
Ken Boothe,
Matthew Bourne,
Pagans,
Motorama,
Los Fastidios,
Harry Pussy,
Camberwell Now,
The Durutti Column,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
James Chance & The Contortions,
The Modern Lovers,
One Last Wish,
The Jesus and Mary Chain,
Second Layer,
Anthony Braxton,
The J.B.'s,
Roy Ayers,
Bizarre Inc.,
The Star Department,
Eric Dolphy,
The New Christs,
The Beau Brummels,
The Velvet Underground,
Sound Behaviour,
The Toasters,
Morten Harket,
Brand Nubian,
Gregory Isaacs,
Smog,
Johnny Osbourne,
Jerry's Kids,
Matthew Halsall,
Royal Trux,
Ultimate Spinach,
The Index,
Hashim,
Young Marble Giants,
La Düsseldorf,
8 Eyed Spy,
L. Decosne,
Eddi Front,
David Axelrod,
48th St. Collective,
The Cramps,
The Black Dice,
The Selecter,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
Model 500,
World's Most,
Pole,
Pulsallama,
Funky Four + One,
Ohio Players,
Black Flag,
Scion,
Art Ensemble Of Chicago,
Franke,
The Doobie Brothers,
Yusef Lateef,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse, Neil Young & Crazy Horse, Neil Young & Crazy Horse, Neil Young & Crazy Horse.
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.