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 Chile and from Tokyo.
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 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Delhi and Paris.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Accra 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 mellotron sounds with much patience.
I was there when Holger Czukay 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 Avey Tare to the crunk 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 Eyeless In Gaza. All the underground hits.
All the Association tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Adolescents record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal disco hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying an oboe and a rhodes and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Yazoo record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a clarinet.
I hear that you and your band have sold your clarinet and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
Liaisons Dangereuses,
Dual Sessions,
La Düsseldorf,
Kas Product,
The Standells,
Gabor Szabo,
Kurtis Blow,
Soul II Soul,
Ash Ra Tempel,
Joensuu 1685,
Au Pairs,
Ituana,
The Barracudas,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
The Gap Band,
Fifty Foot Hose,
Schoolly D,
Bauhaus,
Junior Murvin,
the Fania All-Stars,
Pharoah Sanders,
The Sound,
Pere Ubu,
Lalann,
The Pretty Things,
Depeche Mode,
Procol Harum,
Bobby Byrd,
Harpers Bizarre,
Delon & Dalcan,
Chris Corsano,
Roxette,
Franke,
Gian Franco Pienzio,
Qualms,
cv313,
Todd Rundgren,
Ronan,
The Smiths,
The Angels of Light,
the Soft Cell,
Chris & Cosey,
MDC,
Neil Young,
Wasted Youth,
World's Most,
Royal Trux,
Mad Mike,
Von Mondo,
Accadde A,
Japan,
Basic Channel,
Johnny Clarke,
Grey Daturas,
Cameo,
Art Ensemble Of Chicago,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
Jeru the Damaja,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
These Immortal Souls,
Sight & Sound, Sight & Sound, Sight & Sound, Sight & Sound.
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.