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 Ecuador and from Columbus.
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 1964 to 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in New York and Woodstock.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Stockholm 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 güiro 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 Toasters to the dance kids.
I played it at the 40 Watt.
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 Tubeway Army. All the underground hits.
All Boredoms tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Groovy Waters 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 '70s.
I hear you're buying a spring reverb and a güiro and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Sight & Sound record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a mellotron.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a 808.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Echospace,
the Slits,
ABC,
Liaisons Dangereuses,
Rosa Yemen,
Television Personalities,
Lucky Dragons,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
Warsaw,
The Saints,
Suburban Knight,
KRS-One,
Larry & the Blue Notes,
Silicon Teens,
Bronski Beat,
Angry Samoans,
The Sonics,
Leonard Cohen,
The Black Dice,
Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft,
Bobby Sherman,
Godley & Creme,
Nico,
The Move,
The Moleskins,
Supertramp,
Popol Vuh,
The Moody Blues,
Intrusion,
Johnny Osbourne,
Crooked Eye,
Wolf Eyes,
June Days,
Dead Boys,
Radiohead,
Alice Coltrane,
David Axelrod,
Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane,
Mission of Burma,
Crash Course in Science,
Crispy Ambulance,
Marc Almond,
Graham Central Station,
The Names,
Isaac Hayes,
Gong,
T. Rex,
Duran Duran,
Cal Tjader,
Wasted Youth,
Chris & Cosey,
Jeff Mills,
Peter & Gordon,
Altered Images,
Big Daddy Kane,
The J.B.'s,
Rotary Connection,
Ultimate Spinach,
Oppenheimer Analysis,
Donny Hathaway,
Funkadelic,
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band, The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band, The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band, The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band.
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.