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 Macedonia and from Accra.
But I was there.
I was there in 1976.
I was there at the first Chic show in New York.
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 1960 to 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Hong Kong and Tehran.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Delhi 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 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 Maurizio to the electroclash 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 Mo-Dettes. All the underground hits.
All Sparks tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Skaos record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal funk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a güiro and a guitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your marimba and bought a snare.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought a marimba.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Sonny Sharrock,
Q and Not U,
Thinking Fellers Union Local 282,
Gang Gang Dance,
Chris Corsano,
John Coltrane,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Wasted Youth,
The Stooges,
Sandy B,
La Düsseldorf,
Chris & Cosey,
Bobby Hutcherson,
Angry Samoans,
Surgeon,
Bluetip,
Prince Buster,
Minnie Riperton,
Gerry Rafferty,
Tres Demented,
Roxette,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
China Crisis,
The Leaves,
Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines,
Main Source,
Funkadelic,
Lou Christie,
The Sound,
Henry Cow,
Ohio Players,
Girls At Our Best!,
R.M.O.,
Vladislav Delay,
Wolf Eyes,
MC5,
Kerri Chandler,
Sister Nancy,
The Misunderstood,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Byron Stingily,
Niagra,
The Velvet Underground,
Delon & Dalcan,
Hot Snakes,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
The Pop Group,
Ken Boothe,
Sam Rivers,
KRS-One,
Slick Rick,
Lightning Bolt,
Spoonie Gee,
This Heat,
Marcia Griffiths,
X-102,
10cc,
Darondo, Darondo, Darondo, Darondo.
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.