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 Tajikistan and from Manchester.
But I was there.
I was there in 1976.
I was there at the first Soft Boys show in Cambridge.
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 1965 to 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Woodstock and Paris.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Copenhagen 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 marimba 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 the Normal to the dance kids.
I played it at Cafe Wha.
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 Flash Fearless. All the underground hits.
All Peter and Kerry tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Rotary Connection 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 '70s.
I hear you're buying a linndrum and a snare and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Kenny Larkin record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your harpsichord and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a harpsichord.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Byron Stingily,
Public Enemy,
Avey Tare,
Barbara Tucker,
OOIOO,
Agitation Free,
The Saints,
Pulsallama,
Skarface,
Stockholm Monsters,
Cymande,
The Mighty Diamonds,
Bobby Byrd,
Todd Terry,
the Fania All-Stars,
The Angels of Light,
Lou Christie,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Bobby Hutcherson,
Jeru the Damaja,
Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines,
Avey Tare's Slasher Flicks,
Panda Bear,
The Moleskins,
The Motions,
Rakim,
Lebanon Hanover,
Spoonie Gee,
Q and Not U,
Donald Byrd,
Cecil Taylor,
Sparks,
DJ Style,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
Nirvana,
Strawberry Alarm Clock,
The Peanut Butter Conspiracy,
Ludus,
John Lydon,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
Arcadia,
Clear Light,
Crooked Eye,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
Harpers Bizarre,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
Sly & The Family Stone,
Liaisons Dangereuses,
K-Klass,
Black Bananas,
Alice Coltrane,
Animal Collective,
Ituana,
Procol Harum,
The Kinks,
Beasts of Bourbon,
Patti Smith,
A Flock of Seagulls, A Flock of Seagulls, A Flock of Seagulls, A Flock of Seagulls.
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.