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 Gambia and from Bologna.
But I was there.
I was there in 1976.
I was there at the first Chic show in New York.
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 1962 to 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Taipei and Sao Paulo.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school London 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 Robert Palmer 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 Dual Sessions to the punk kids.
I played it at the Crocodile.
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 Fluxion. All the underground hits.
All Arcadia tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Yazoo 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 '70s 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 Kerri Chandler record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a rhodes.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
Sunsets and Hearts,
Crash Course in Science,
Monks,
Charles Mingus,
Graham Central Station,
Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx,
Archie Shepp,
Mission of Burma,
Man Parrish,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
T.S.O.L.,
Lalo Schifrin,
Crispian St. Peters,
Television Personalities,
Davy DMX,
June of 44,
ABBA,
10cc,
JFA,
Roger Hodgson,
Popol Vuh,
Half Japanese,
Grandmaster Flash,
Dual Sessions,
Amon Düül II,
Bootsy Collins,
Sight & Sound,
The Neon Judgement,
Malaria!,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
Bush Tetras,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
Carl Craig,
the Germs,
Crooked Eye,
Marc Almond,
Can,
A Certain Ratio,
Fat Boys,
Bobbi Humphrey,
John Lydon,
The Saints,
Amazonics,
Gregory Isaacs,
Chris & Cosey,
Ice-T,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
Negative Approach,
Oblivians,
Rites of Spring,
Teenage Jesus and the Jerks,
The Associates,
Index,
Jacques Brel,
Steve Hackett,
DJ Style,
Godley & Creme,
Sonny Sharrock,
Laurel Aitken,
Glambeats Corp.,
The United States of America,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines, Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines, Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines, Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines.
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.