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 Saudi Arabia and from Milan.
But I was there.
I was there in 1977.
I was there at the first Zapp show in Hamilton.
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 1965 to 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Copenhagen and Beijing.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Copenhagen 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 guitar 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 Seeds to the rock 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 The Evens. All the underground hits.
All These Immortal Souls tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Funkadelic 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 '60s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a sitar and an arpeggiator and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a La Düsseldorf record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a linndrum.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought an oboe.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Louis and Bebe Barron,
Gang Gang Dance,
Barbara Tucker,
Thee Headcoats,
Roxette,
KRS-One,
Suburban Knight,
H. Thieme,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
The Moleskins,
EPMD,
Al Stewart,
Tom Boy,
Fad Gadget,
David McCallum,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
John Foxx,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
U.S. Maple,
Drive Like Jehu,
Teenage Jesus and the Jerks,
Wire,
Matthew Bourne,
Dennis Brown,
Animal Collective,
The Trojans,
Donald Byrd,
Popol Vuh,
The Skatalites,
Roy Ayers,
The Litter,
Pulsallama,
Heaven 17,
Maurizio,
Dave Gahan,
Kas Product,
The Sisters of Mercy,
Girls At Our Best!,
June Days,
Jeff Mills,
Flamin' Groovies,
Joey Negro,
Hardrive,
The Walker Brothers,
Swans,
Television Personalities,
Eddi Front,
The Knickerbockers,
Vladislav Delay,
The Monochrome Set,
The Victims,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Derrick Morgan,
Glambeats Corp.,
Mantronix,
Brass Construction,
Soft Cell,
Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme,
Sunsets and Hearts,
Soul II Soul,
The Fire Engines,
Brothers Johnson, Brothers Johnson, Brothers Johnson, Brothers Johnson.
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.