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 Burkina and from Lagos.
But I was there.
I was there in 1967.
I was there at the first Rodriguez show in Detroit.
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 1963 to 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Toronto and Cairo.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Hong Kong 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 synthesizer 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 Cheater Slicks to the funk 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 Alison Limerick. All the underground hits.
All Icehouse tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Scan 7 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 '70s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying an oboe and an arpeggiator and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Groovy Waters record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a snare.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Mojo Men,
Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft,
Iggy Pop,
Altered Images,
Electric Prunes,
The Motions,
Marvin Gaye,
Sonic Youth,
The Offenders,
Boredoms,
R.M.O.,
James Chance & The Contortions,
Surgeon,
Khruangbin,
The Alarm Clocks,
Bootsy Collins,
Adolescents,
Albert Ayler,
Nico,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
Reuben Wilson,
the Normal,
Jacob Miller,
Rotary Connection,
Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx,
Lightning Bolt,
Scan 7,
Frankie Knuckles,
Simply Red,
The Five Americans,
Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme,
Model 500,
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark,
Sun City Girls,
Aural Exciters,
Youth Brigade,
Bobby Byrd,
Joe Smooth,
The Techniques,
Blancmange,
The Monks,
Pussy Galore,
10cc,
Be Bop Deluxe,
Peter and Kerry,
Lyres,
Neu!,
Archie Shepp,
Marine Girls,
the Association,
The Neon Judgement,
Todd Terry,
The Angels of Light,
Alphaville,
The J.B.'s,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
In Retrospect,
One Last Wish,
Fat Boys,
The Martian,
The Real Kids,
Kool Moe Dee,
The Slackers,
Warsaw,
Leonard Cohen, Leonard Cohen, Leonard Cohen, Leonard Cohen.
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.