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 Kiribati and from Spokane.
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 1969 to 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Copenhagen and Spokane.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Houston 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 Second Layer practice in a loft in South London.
I was working on the synthesizer 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 Cramps to the grunge 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 Kango’s Stein Massive. All the underground hits.
All Banda Bassotti tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Negative Approach record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grime 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 harpsichord and a rhodes and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Sun City Girls record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a chamberlin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a 808.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Piero Umiliani,
Deadbeat,
8 Eyed Spy,
Joyce Sims,
The Pop Group,
Mandrill,
The Gladiators,
David Bowie,
Sun Ra,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
Accadde A,
Swell Maps,
Liaisons Dangereuses,
Dark Day,
Fela Kuti,
Organ,
Young Marble Giants,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
The Star Department,
The Invisible,
Peter and Kerry,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
The Smoke,
Brand Nubian,
The Martian,
Mad Mike,
Connie Case,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
D'Angelo,
Skriet,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
Fugazi,
Gil Scott Heron,
Pulsallama,
the Slits,
X-102,
Mr. Review,
The Last Poets,
Brothers Johnson,
Radiopuhelimet,
Gregory Isaacs,
Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines,
James White and The Blacks,
Outsiders,
Chris Corsano,
Groovy Waters,
Liliput,
Scott Walker,
the Normal,
The Fire Engines,
Lungfish,
Average White Band,
Oneida,
Electric Prunes,
Kurtis Blow,
The Wake,
Make Up,
The Raincoats,
The Pretty Things,
Pet Shop Boys,
the Sonics,
Blossom Toes, Blossom Toes, Blossom Toes, Blossom Toes.
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.