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 Argentina and from Lille.
But I was there.
I was there in 1971.
I was there at the first Neu! show in Düsseldorf.
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 1962 to 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Cairo and Glasgow.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school London 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 1967 at the first Rodriguez practice in a loft in Detroit.
I was working on the organ 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 Ludus to the rock 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 The Flesh Eaters. All the underground hits.
All Marmalade tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Goldenarms record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal punk 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 guitar and a spring reverb and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Funky Four + One record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a harpsichord.
I hear that you and your band have sold your harpsichord and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Eve St. Jones,
Television Personalities,
Scrapy,
Peter & Gordon,
Ludus,
Country Teasers,
Gregory Isaacs,
Junior Murvin,
The Motions,
Bush Tetras,
Drexciya,
Dark Day,
Wings,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
The Offenders,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
Erykah Badu,
Jeff Lynne,
Livin' Joy,
Pagans,
The Standells,
Juan Atkins,
Circle Jerks,
Minny Pops,
Spoonie Gee,
Dawn Penn,
Con Funk Shun,
Skaos,
Jesper Dahlback,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
The Sound,
Harpers Bizarre,
Pole,
Graham Central Station,
U.S. Maple,
Todd Terry,
The Mummies,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Los Fastidios,
Lightning Bolt,
The Doors,
The Saints,
Donald Byrd,
Bobby Byrd,
Marc Romboy vs. Booka Shade,
UT,
Tom Boy,
Radiopuhelimet,
Quando Quango,
The Fall,
Stetsasonic,
John Cale,
Pere Ubu,
Popol Vuh,
Barrington Levy,
The Martian,
Danielle Patucci,
Das Ding,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
Metal Thangz,
Lindisfarne,
Lee Hazlewood,
Eyeless In Gaza, Eyeless In Gaza, Eyeless In Gaza, Eyeless In Gaza.
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.