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 Vanuatu and from Calgary.
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 1960 to 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Mexico City and Beijing.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Philadelphia 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 1968 at the first Bowie practice in a loft in Bromley.
I was working on the harpsichord 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 Bad Manners to the funk kids.
I played it at CBGB's.
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 Sight & Sound. All the underground hits.
All Pussy Galore tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every UT record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rock hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a 808 and a clarinet and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Schoolly D 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?
Man Parrish,
Grandmaster Flash,
cv313,
The Seeds,
Masters at Work,
Todd Terry,
Television Personalities,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Circle Jerks,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Sun Ra,
Alton Ellis,
Public Image Ltd.,
Urselle,
Pere Ubu,
Goldenarms,
Electric Prunes,
Kaleidoscope,
Country Teasers,
Blake Baxter,
The Cramps,
The Gap Band,
Sexual Harrassment,
Pierre Henry,
Curtis Mayfield,
The Gories,
The Residents,
The Mojo Men,
The Black Dice,
Unwound,
Bush Tetras,
Bobby Hutcherson,
Josef K,
Radiohead,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
Ornette Coleman,
Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane,
The Mighty Diamonds,
Underground Resistance,
Black Flag,
Neil Young,
Dennis Brown,
Brothers Johnson,
Marc Almond,
The Fire Engines,
The Cure,
Sandy B,
Terrestrial Tones,
Clear Light,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
A Certain Ratio,
Darondo,
the Bar-Kays,
Sugar Minott,
Kenny Larkin,
The Count Five,
The Knickerbockers,
Idris Muhammad,
Eric B and Rakim,
The Birthday Party,
Dorothy Ashby,
Lightning Bolt, Lightning Bolt, Lightning Bolt, Lightning Bolt.
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.