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 Italy and from Glasgow.
But I was there.
I was there in 1979.
I was there at the first Josef K show in Edinburgh.
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 1968 to 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Delhi and Beijing.
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 1971 at the first Big Star practice in a loft in Memphis.
I was working on the güiro sounds with much patience.
I was there when David Bowie 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 Soulsonic Force to the techno kids.
I played it at CBGB's.
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 Heaven 17. All the underground hits.
All The Move tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Eurythmics 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 '80s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a 808 and a marimba and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Kevin Saunderson record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your güiro and bought an oboe.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a güiro.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Mighty Diamonds,
Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme,
Wally Richardson,
Pulsallama,
Spandau Ballet,
Kas Product,
Lebanon Hanover,
Liliput,
Hasil Adkins,
Nico,
Jeff Lynne,
The J.B.'s,
kango's stein massive,
Alton Ellis,
Skaos,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
Easy Going,
Half Japanese,
Tropical Tobacco,
a-ha,
Funky Four + One,
Lightning Bolt,
The Monks,
Rhythm & Sound,
China Crisis,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
Grandmaster Flash,
Bootsy's Rubber Band,
Metal Thangz,
Shuggie Otis,
The Pretty Things,
Moebius,
The American Breed,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
E-Dancer,
Banda Bassotti,
Nils Olav,
Cecil Taylor,
Roy Ayers Ubiquity,
Talk Talk,
D'Angelo,
Ituana,
Soft Machine,
X-101,
The Happenings,
Adolescents,
Main Source,
Joe Smooth,
The Victims,
Stetsasonic,
The Trojans,
Peter & Gordon,
David Bowie,
Sight & Sound,
Hardrive,
Surgeon,
The Buckinghams,
Sun City Girls,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
Yellowson,
Soulsonic Force, Soulsonic Force, Soulsonic Force, Soulsonic Force.
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.