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 Montenegro and from Salvador.
But I was there.
I was there in 1977.
I was there at the first Zapp show in Hamilton.
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 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in New York and Mexico City.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Salvador 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 synthesizer sounds with much patience.
I was there when Robert Palmer 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 Move to the funk kids.
I played it at the Astoria.
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 Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel. All the underground hits.
All The Invisible tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal electroclash hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a chamberlin and a sitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Fad Gadget record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought an oboe.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Supertramp,
The Doobie Brothers,
Kaleidoscope,
Matthew Halsall,
Colin Newman,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Pussy Galore,
10cc,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
T. Rex,
The Beau Brummels,
Von Mondo,
Alphaville,
Cheater Slicks,
Electric Light Orchestra,
Visage,
Scan 7,
FM Einheit,
Flipper,
Godley & Creme,
MDC,
Fifty Foot Hose,
K-Klass,
The Vogues,
Dual Sessions,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
Q65,
Cameo,
Gregory Isaacs,
Warren Ellis,
UT,
Howard Jones,
The Cosmic Jokers,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft,
Quando Quango,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
Traffic Nightmare,
X-102,
Faust,
Oneida,
Fad Gadget,
Skriet,
Pet Shop Boys,
Minnie Riperton,
Ponytail,
Sun Ra,
In Retrospect,
The Knickerbockers,
This Heat,
Ronan,
Thompson Twins,
Eli Mardock,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
The Pop Group,
Bang on a Can All-Stars,
Grandmaster Flash,
Lungfish,
Fugazi,
Sandy B,
Buzzcocks,
Angels of Light & Akron/Family, Angels of Light & Akron/Family, Angels of Light & Akron/Family, Angels of Light & Akron/Family.
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.