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 Azerbaijan and from Madrid.
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 1967 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Stockholm and Glasgow.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Spokane 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 Selda practice in a loft in Istanbul.
I was working on the chamberlin 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 Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra to the grunge kids.
I played it at the Hacienda.
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 Marmalade. All the underground hits.
All Parry Music tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Scott Walker record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rap 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 mellotron and a rhodes and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your organ and bought a clarinet.
I hear that you and your band have sold your clarinet and bought an organ.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Lalo Schifrin,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
Excepter,
Jeff Mills,
Art Ensemble Of Chicago,
Danielle Patucci,
The Monochrome Set,
Camberwell Now,
Ice-T,
X-101,
Maurizio,
Gang Gang Dance,
Arcadia,
Delon & Dalcan,
The Motions,
Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson,
Soulsonic Force,
Yazoo,
Thompson Twins,
Saccharine Trust,
DJ Style,
The Electric Prunes,
Icehouse,
Warren Ellis,
In Retrospect,
Leonard Cohen,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
Black Flag,
Slave,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
Gregory Isaacs,
The Techniques,
T.S.O.L.,
Patti Smith,
The Barracudas,
Bill Wells,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
The Fugs,
Roxette,
U.S. Maple,
Mars,
Circle Jerks,
Monks,
Sandy B,
Scott Walker,
Duran Duran,
La Düsseldorf,
R.M.O.,
It's A Beautiful Day,
Man Eating Sloth,
The Tremeloes,
Joy Division,
Michelle Simonal,
Subhumans,
Von Mondo,
Soft Cell,
Pere Ubu,
Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines,
Kaleidoscope,
Ohio Players, Ohio Players, Ohio Players, Ohio Players.
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.