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 Zimbabwe and from Lyon.
But I was there.
I was there in 1977.
I was there at the first Zapp show in Hamilton.
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 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Manchester and Bremen.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Bologna 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 snare sounds with much patience.
I was there when Donald Fagen 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 jazz kids.
I played it at the Crocodile.
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 Infiniti. All the underground hits.
All Aswad tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Mantronix record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rock 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 rhodes and a chamberlin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Letta Mbulu record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your marimba and bought a theremin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a marimba.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Boz Scaggs,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
Franke,
Motorama,
Avey Tare's Slasher Flicks,
The Gap Band,
Nation of Ulysses,
Delon & Dalcan,
Soft Cell,
LL Cool J,
Average White Band,
Arcadia,
The Monochrome Set,
Excepter,
Scan 7,
Alison Limerick,
Public Image Ltd.,
Easy Going,
James Chance & The Contortions,
Wire,
Shoche,
K-Klass,
One Last Wish,
The Golliwogs,
Kool Moe Dee,
The Jesus and Mary Chain,
The Dave Clark Five,
The Pop Group,
Vladislav Delay,
Frankie Knuckles,
The Stooges,
The Fire Engines,
The Mojo Men,
Scott Walker,
La Düsseldorf,
Johnny Osbourne,
Mandrill,
Soul II Soul,
The Modern Lovers,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
London Community Gospel Choir,
Ten City,
Cal Tjader,
Jimmy McGriff,
Derrick Morgan,
The Walker Brothers,
In Retrospect,
Girls At Our Best!,
Iggy Pop,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
Talk Talk,
The Fall,
Sound Behaviour,
10cc,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
The Victims,
The Monks,
Jandek,
Peter & Gordon,
Theoretical Girls,
Magma,
Infiniti,
Johnny Clarke, Johnny Clarke, Johnny Clarke, Johnny Clarke.
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.