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 Japan and from Houston.
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 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Houston and Houston.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Paris 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 at the first Suicide practice in a loft in New York.
I was working on the rhodes 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 Godley & Creme to the crunk kids.
I played it at Trash.
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 The Star Department. All the underground hits.
All Ronan tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Sound Behaviour 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 '70s.
I hear you're buying a güiro and a marimba and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Ituana record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a sitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a theremin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Scrapy,
Dave Gahan,
The Doors,
The Mighty Diamonds,
Soul II Soul,
KRS-One,
Arab on Radar,
Amazonics,
The Stooges,
Sight & Sound,
Scan 7,
Brand Nubian,
The Knickerbockers,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
In Retrospect,
U.S. Maple,
Colin Newman,
Nik Kershaw,
Jerry's Kids,
MC5,
Model 500,
Joe Finger,
Letta Mbulu,
Joy Division,
Skaos,
The Shadows of Knight,
the Fania All-Stars,
Derrick Morgan,
Dorothy Ashby,
These Immortal Souls,
Chris Corsano,
Cal Tjader,
Aswad,
Jacques Brel,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Mars,
Hoover,
Gian Franco Pienzio,
The Doobie Brothers,
Outsiders,
Parry Music,
Motorama,
Scott Walker,
Mr. Review,
Yazoo,
The Music Machine,
Lalo Schifrin,
Tommy Roe,
Surgeon,
Ice-T,
Moebius,
Soulsonic Force,
The Fortunes,
Hardrive,
The Grass Roots,
The Raincoats,
Boredoms,
Quadrant,
MDC,
Al Stewart,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
The Monochrome Set, The Monochrome Set, The Monochrome Set, The Monochrome Set.
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.