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 Slovenia and from Manchester.
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 1964 to 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Spokane and New York.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Johannesburg 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 Selda practice in a loft in Istanbul.
I was working on the spring reverb 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 Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane to the grunge kids.
I played it at the 40 Watt.
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 Gerry Rafferty. All the underground hits.
All Harmonia tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Mary Jane Girls record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rock hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying an arpeggiator and a spring reverb and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Kas Product record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a harpsichord.
I hear that you and your band have sold your harpsichord and bought a linndrum.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
Index,
Susan Cadogan,
Anthony Braxton,
The Neon Judgement,
The Flesh Eaters,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Sound Behaviour,
Motorama,
Electric Light Orchestra,
Japan,
Half Japanese,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
8 Eyed Spy,
Crime,
Loose Ends,
Harmonia,
Stetsasonic,
Marmalade,
Minor Threat,
Johnny Clarke,
Hardrive,
Marcia Griffiths,
Gastr Del Sol,
Eve St. Jones,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
Barbara Tucker,
Electric Prunes,
Neil Young,
Royal Trux,
Peter & Gordon,
Donny Hathaway,
Aaron Thompson,
Parry Music,
Visage,
The Red Krayola,
Metal Thangz,
The Fire Engines,
Adolescents,
Arcadia,
Alison Limerick,
The American Breed,
Sexual Harrassment,
Skaos,
The Remains,
Gang Gang Dance,
Dual Sessions,
Nils Olav,
Cheater Slicks,
June Days,
Flipper,
The Birthday Party,
Bill Wells,
Dead Boys,
PIL,
Flamin' Groovies,
Scrapy,
Lyres,
Rosa Yemen,
Traffic Nightmare,
Brothers Johnson,
the Sonics,
Cameo, Cameo, Cameo, Cameo.
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.