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 Ireland and from Tokyo.
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 1965 to 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Glasgow and Cairo.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Madrid 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 1979 at the first Josef K practice in a loft in Edinburgh.
I was working on the güiro 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 Thompson Twins to the jazz kids.
I played it at CBGB's.
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 Zapp. All the underground hits.
All Gerry Rafferty tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Pylon record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal jazz 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 linndrum and a mellotron and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Gastr Del Sol record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought an arpeggiator.
I hear that you and your band have sold your arpeggiator and bought a mellotron.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Skriet,
Chrome,
Godley & Creme,
The Slackers,
Yellowson,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
The Dave Clark Five,
Oppenheimer Analysis,
Isaac Hayes,
Nick Fraelich,
10cc,
Mad Mike,
Brass Construction,
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
The Smiths,
The Star Department,
The Names,
Quadrant,
Los Fastidios,
Peter & Gordon,
Essential Logic,
The Residents,
Deepchord,
Lalo Schifrin,
The Blackbyrds,
Joensuu 1685,
Sister Nancy,
Man Eating Sloth,
PIL,
Mr. Review,
Audionom,
Archie Shepp,
Marc Romboy vs. Booka Shade,
Davy DMX,
The Zeros,
T.S.O.L.,
The Modern Lovers,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
Jesper Dahlback,
The Trojans,
Amon Düül,
Ten City,
Robert Görl,
Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson,
Sugar Minott,
Brick,
Grauzone,
The Gories,
Cheater Slicks,
Lungfish,
The Divine Comedy,
Electric Prunes,
Royal Trux,
Gichy Dan,
Curtis Mayfield,
Lee Hazlewood,
Roxy Music,
CMW,
Judy Mowatt,
The Beau Brummels,
X-101,
Fugazi,
The Angels of Light,
Roy Ayers, Roy Ayers, Roy Ayers, Roy Ayers.
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.