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 Kosovo and from Accra.
But I was there.
I was there in 1971.
I was there at the first Selda show in Istanbul.
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 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Madrid and Lyon.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Glasgow 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 1977 at the first Zapp practice in a loft in Hamilton.
I was working on the organ 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 The Modern Lovers to the jazz 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 Urselle. All the underground hits.
All One Last Wish tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Cybotron 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 '50s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a marimba and a theremin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a UT record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a güiro.
I hear that you and your band have sold your güiro and bought a rhodes.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Drive Like Jehu,
It's A Beautiful Day,
The Standells,
The Walker Brothers,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
The Star Department,
the Fania All-Stars,
Sly & The Family Stone,
Harmonia,
Byron Stingily,
Mission of Burma,
Mark Hollis,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
Television,
Eric Dolphy,
Organ,
A Flock of Seagulls,
Boz Scaggs,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
June Days,
Matthew Bourne,
Fort Wilson Riot,
Model 500,
Bobbi Humphrey,
Barclay James Harvest,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
The Evens,
The Slackers,
Selector Dub Narcotic,
Marc Romboy vs. Booka Shade,
Dawn Penn,
Stetsasonic,
Grandmaster Flash,
Echospace,
Mad Mike,
Scratch Acid,
Joensuu 1685,
the Germs,
Infiniti,
Eurythmics,
the Slits,
The Kinks,
The Vogues,
Avey Tare,
Bang On A Can,
Magazine,
New Age Steppers,
The Jesus and Mary Chain,
K-Klass,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Camouflage,
Guru Guru,
Oppenheimer Analysis,
Rekid,
Rufus Thomas,
Moby Grape,
La Düsseldorf,
Jandek,
The Skatalites,
Delon & Dalcan,
EPMD,
Au Pairs,
Cabaret Voltaire, Cabaret Voltaire, Cabaret Voltaire, Cabaret Voltaire.
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.