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 Portugal and from Edmonton.
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 1966 to 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Tehran and Tehran.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Sao Paulo 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 1976 at the first Chic practice in a loft in New York.
I was working on the 808 sounds with much patience.
I was there when Captain Beefheart 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 DeepChord presents Echospace to the disco 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 Brass Construction. All the underground hits.
All Avey Tare's Slasher Flicks tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every the Soft Cell record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grunge hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a chamberlin and a synthesizer and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Young Rascals record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a 808.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Massinfluence,
Donny Hathaway,
The Motions,
Public Image Ltd.,
X-102,
Robert Hood,
Alton Ellis,
The Gories,
Tommy Roe,
Dual Sessions,
Fatback Band,
Simply Red,
Godley & Creme,
Amon Düül II,
James White and The Blacks,
Roxette,
The Selecter,
Boz Scaggs,
The Young Rascals,
the Normal,
Sex Pistols,
Sister Nancy,
Ultra Naté,
Magma,
the Fania All-Stars,
Eric Dolphy,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
Agent Orange,
Half Japanese,
Second Layer,
The Kinks,
Bush Tetras,
FM Einheit,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
Quantec,
The Gap Band,
One Last Wish,
Boredoms,
Andrew Hill,
The J.B.'s,
Sexual Harrassment,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
New Order,
Visage,
Sarah Menescal,
Pantytec,
Delon & Dalcan,
Jawbox,
London Community Gospel Choir,
Patti Smith,
Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines,
The Alarm Clocks,
Goldenarms,
The Blackbyrds,
Rufus Thomas,
Monks,
Gregory Isaacs,
Cameo,
It's A Beautiful Day,
Sun City Girls,
Junior Murvin, Junior Murvin, Junior Murvin, Junior Murvin.
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.