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 Mongolia and from Manila.
But I was there.
I was there in 1979.
I was there at the first Josef K show in Edinburgh.
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 1964 to 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Tehran and Philadelphia.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Tehran 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 spring reverb sounds with much patience.
I was there when David Bowie 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 Lalo Schifrin to the rap kids.
I played it at the Roxy.
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 Associates. All the underground hits.
All Flipper tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal crunk 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 rhodes and a güiro and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Rotary Connection record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a theremin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought an oboe.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Human League,
The Zeros,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
Metal Thangz,
Black Flag,
Young Marble Giants,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
The J.B.'s,
Shuggie Otis,
Warsaw,
DNA,
The Monks,
Robert Hood,
The Monochrome Set,
Byron Stingily,
Newcleus,
Agitation Free,
The Durutti Column,
Easy Going,
the Normal,
Kool Moe Dee,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
Al Stewart,
Harpers Bizarre,
Lindisfarne,
Louis and Bebe Barron,
a-ha,
Marshall Jefferson,
Niagra,
Audionom,
Eli Mardock,
Black Sheep,
The Blues Magoos,
The Golliwogs,
The Fugs,
Severed Heads,
Red Lorry Yellow Lorry,
Amazonics,
The Grass Roots,
Cabaret Voltaire,
Terry Callier,
The Move,
Arthur Verocai,
Yazoo,
Bobby Hutcherson,
JFA,
Deadbeat,
Stiv Bators,
Fat Boys,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
Curtis Mayfield,
Visage,
Public Image Ltd.,
Bootsy Collins,
Matthew Halsall,
Bizarre Inc.,
The Standells,
Josef K,
E-Dancer,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Adolescents,
Juan Atkins,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience, Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience, Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience, Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience.
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.