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 Singapore and from Edmonton.
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 1969 to 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Tokyo and Portland.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Milan 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 harpsichord 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 Agitation Free to the jazz kids.
I played it at Cafe Wha.
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 Bobby Womack. All the underground hits.
All MC5 tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Moebius record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grime hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a mellotron and a synthesizer and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a One Last Wish record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought an oboe.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a mellotron.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
the Normal,
The Martian,
Lalo Schifrin,
The Leaves,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
Stereo Dub,
Donny Hathaway,
Traffic Nightmare,
Iggy Pop,
Kevin Saunderson,
The Fuzztones,
Warsaw,
Sun Ra,
The Pop Group,
The Moleskins,
Flash Fearless,
Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft,
Red Lorry Yellow Lorry,
DJ Style,
Los Fastidios,
Joey Negro,
The Cowsills,
Roxette,
The Stooges,
AZ,
Aloha Tigers,
Kango’s Stein Massive,
The Motions,
Joy Division,
Quadrant,
New York Dolls,
The Smiths,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
London Community Gospel Choir,
Ash Ra Tempel,
Cal Tjader,
Danielle Patucci,
Terry Callier,
The Litter,
Supertramp,
Donald Byrd,
The Cure,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
Groovy Waters,
Sandy B,
Goldenarms,
The Modern Lovers,
These Immortal Souls,
Subhumans,
Average White Band,
Tom Boy,
Quando Quango,
Matthew Halsall,
Crooked Eye,
Charles Mingus,
Byron Stingily,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
Mary Jane Girls,
Delon & Dalcan,
Tubeway Army,
Strawberry Alarm Clock,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
Fatback Band, Fatback Band, Fatback Band, Fatback 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.