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 Italy and from Hong Kong.
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 Johannesburg and Bremen.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Manila 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 1977 at the first Zapp practice in a loft in Hamilton.
I was working on the sitar 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 Youth Brigade to the punk 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 The Index. All the underground hits.
All Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Cluster 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 '50s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a 808 and a mellotron and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Sun Ra Arkestra record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a rhodes.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Eden Ahbez,
Frankie Knuckles,
Graham Central Station,
Aaron Thompson,
Lakeside,
The Kinks,
Harmonia,
Aloha Tigers,
Ultra Naté,
Dark Day,
Marshall Jefferson,
Darondo,
Minor Threat,
Alice Coltrane,
Scientists,
The Knickerbockers,
The Cure,
The Dave Clark Five,
DNA,
David Bowie,
Spoonie Gee,
The Peanut Butter Conspiracy,
Junior Murvin,
Thompson Twins,
Vladislav Delay,
the Normal,
Juan Atkins,
Lungfish,
Lindisfarne,
Eddi Front,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Deakin,
Vainqueur,
Slick Rick,
Sparks,
The Dirtbombs,
Make Up,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
Avey Tare's Slasher Flicks,
Bobby Sherman,
The Remains,
Visage,
Pylon,
Depeche Mode,
Flipper,
Soft Machine,
The Blues Magoos,
Lalo Schifrin,
Minnie Riperton,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Boredoms,
Qualms,
Zapp,
Sam Rivers,
Echo & the Bunnymen,
Cameo,
Eric Copeland,
Amon Düül,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
This Heat,
Television Personalities,
Bootsy Collins,
FM Einheit,
Jeff Lynne, Jeff Lynne, Jeff Lynne, Jeff Lynne.
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.