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 Belarus and from Houston.
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 1961 to 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Accra and New York.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Calgary 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 guitar sounds with much patience.
I was there when Michael McDonald 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 Dennis Brown to the rap 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 La Düsseldorf. All the underground hits.
All New Order tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every ABBA record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal funk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a guitar and a chamberlin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Marine Girls record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a mellotron.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Amon Düül,
Au Pairs,
Scan 7,
Frankie Knuckles,
Altered Images,
Goldenarms,
Lucky Dragons,
Strawberry Alarm Clock,
Essential Logic,
Roger Hodgson,
Silicon Teens,
Anthony Braxton,
Ken Boothe,
The Birthday Party,
The Leaves,
Nils Olav,
Joey Negro,
Bobby Hutcherson,
Harmonia,
Chris & Cosey,
Von Mondo,
Brothers Johnson,
Connie Case,
Mark Hollis,
Gerry Rafferty,
The Gladiators,
AZ,
Bobby Sherman,
Reuben Wilson,
The Smiths,
Scott Walker,
Sällskapet,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
Mandrill,
Ohio Players,
the Germs,
The Trojans,
The Skatalites,
The Standells,
The Monochrome Set,
Robert Görl,
Radio Birdman,
Josef K,
Johnny Clarke,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
Dual Sessions,
Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines,
Qualms,
Smog,
The Fire Engines,
Blake Baxter,
James Chance & The Contortions,
The Fugs,
The Men They Couldn't Hang,
The Dead C,
Rufus Thomas,
These Immortal Souls,
Moebius,
Gang of Four,
Grandmaster Flash,
Matthew Bourne,
Pulsallama,
Siouxsie and the Banshees, Siouxsie and the Banshees, Siouxsie and the Banshees, Siouxsie and the Banshees.
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.