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 Qatar and from Glasgow.
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 1966 to 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Manchester and Taipei.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Winnipeg 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 1976 at the first Chic practice in a loft in New York.
I was working on the oboe 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 David Axelrod to the grime 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 Lucky Dragons. All the underground hits.
All Loose Ends tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Gil Scott Heron record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal dance hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a guitar and a snare and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a H. Thieme record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a sitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Urselle,
The Skatalites,
Excepter,
Jerry Gold Smith,
Yaz,
Tim Buckley,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
Rotary Connection,
the Soft Cell,
Quando Quango,
Moby Grape,
Joe Smooth,
Fear,
Ice-T,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
Isaac Hayes,
Grauzone,
Public Image Ltd.,
Soft Cell,
Byron Stingily,
Ossler,
Patti Smith,
Sixth Finger,
Oneida,
Darondo,
New Order,
Simply Red,
Cymande,
Avey Tare,
Mandrill,
Sonic Youth,
Soft Machine,
Half Japanese,
the Swans,
Black Moon,
Newcleus,
Mantronix,
CMW,
Yellowson,
Eli Mardock,
Yusef Lateef,
The Raincoats,
Alton Ellis,
Graham Central Station,
The Count Five,
The Smiths,
The Evens,
Sällskapet,
Al Stewart,
Michelle Simonal,
Camouflage,
Alphaville,
Electric Prunes,
Camberwell Now,
the Slits,
Scrapy,
Funkadelic,
Aaron Thompson,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
Suicide,
Minor Threat,
Lee Hazlewood, Lee Hazlewood, Lee Hazlewood, Lee Hazlewood.
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.