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 Taiwan and from Philadelphia.
But I was there.
I was there in 1971.
I was there at the first Selda show in Istanbul.
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 1968 to 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Shanghai and Philadelphia.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Portland 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 marimba 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 Fad Gadget to the punk 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 Godley & Creme. All the underground hits.
All Cabaret Voltaire tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Minor Threat record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal techno hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a mellotron and a spring reverb and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Mighty Diamonds record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a snare.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought a mellotron.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Livin' Joy,
The Count Five,
Bill Near,
Nik Kershaw,
Bobby Womack,
Dennis Brown,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
Clear Light,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
Oppenheimer Analysis,
Ten City,
Roy Ayers,
The Black Dice,
Sly & The Family Stone,
Hardrive,
Angels of Light & Akron/Family,
Aural Exciters,
The Cramps,
Gang of Four,
La Düsseldorf,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
the Soft Cell,
Ultravox,
Absolute Body Control,
Swell Maps,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
The Cosmic Jokers,
Moss Icon,
Albert Ayler,
Arcadia,
Lyres,
Joey Negro,
The Move,
Gil Scott Heron,
Second Layer,
Subhumans,
Andrew Hill,
Lalo Schifrin,
Can,
Jesper Dahlback,
Fort Wilson Riot,
Amon Düül,
Flamin' Groovies,
Niagra,
The United States of America,
10cc,
Dave Gahan,
JFA,
Scratch Acid,
the Association,
Kevin Saunderson,
Public Enemy,
Mandrill,
Babytalk,
Severed Heads,
Scan 7,
Tubeway Army,
Camouflage,
The Birthday Party,
Kool Moe Dee,
Quando Quango,
Janne Schatter, Janne Schatter, Janne Schatter, Janne Schatter.
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.