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 Bahamas and from Mumbai.
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 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Lagos and Manchester.
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 1967 at the first Rodriguez practice in a loft in Detroit.
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 Flash Fearless to the rap 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 Lungfish. All the underground hits.
All The Residents tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Pylon record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal electroclash hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a theremin and a clarinet and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Five Americans record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your güiro and bought an arpeggiator.
I hear that you and your band have sold your arpeggiator and bought a güiro.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Average White Band,
Fatback Band,
Radiopuhelimet,
June of 44,
A Certain Ratio,
David Bowie,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
Grandmaster Flash,
Girls At Our Best!,
Nico,
Inner City,
Animal Collective,
Sam Rivers,
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
The Last Poets,
Godley & Creme,
The Cure,
Radiohead,
The Gap Band,
The Velvet Underground,
Mary Jane Girls,
Saccharine Trust,
Teenage Jesus and the Jerks,
Maurizio,
Sight & Sound,
Bootsy Collins,
Soft Cell,
LL Cool J,
Roxy Music,
Susan Cadogan,
The Real Kids,
Grey Daturas,
Aural Exciters,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Cabaret Voltaire,
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band,
The Names,
Skriet,
Amon Düül,
Lucky Dragons,
Eli Mardock,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
Desert Stars,
The Dead C,
Erykah Badu,
The Stooges,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
Kerri Chandler,
David McCallum,
The Offenders,
Lungfish,
Pagans,
John Coltrane,
The Walker Brothers,
The Monochrome Set,
Easy Going,
Cluster,
Infiniti,
Rufus Thomas,
Fluxion,
Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme,
The Invisible, The Invisible, The Invisible, The Invisible.
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.