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 St Kitts & Nevis and from Winnipeg.
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 1962 to 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Manchester and Milan.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Bremen 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 at the first Suicide practice in a loft in New York.
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 Nico to the jazz 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 Red Lorry Yellow Lorry. All the underground hits.
All Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Remains record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal jazz hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying an arpeggiator and an oboe and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Todd Terry record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a rhodes.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a spring reverb.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Joensuu 1685,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
Frankie Knuckles,
Steve Hackett,
Michelle Simonal,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Rites of Spring,
Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines,
MC5,
Mars,
Youth Brigade,
Altered Images,
Bad Manners,
Minor Threat,
Trumans Water,
Mandrill,
Essential Logic,
Fifty Foot Hose,
Surgeon,
Skaos,
Lou Reed,
Mo-Dettes,
Moby Grape,
B.T. Express,
Von Mondo,
Howard Jones,
Marcia Griffiths,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
Cameo,
Pantaleimon,
Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson,
The Mojo Men,
Sun City Girls,
Livin' Joy,
Joyce Sims,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
10cc,
Peter and Kerry,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
The Mighty Diamonds,
Louis and Bebe Barron,
Joey Negro,
Peter & Gordon,
the Slits,
Con Funk Shun,
Q and Not U,
Mark Hollis,
Negative Approach,
LL Cool J,
Animal Collective,
Gabor Szabo,
Neil Young,
Bill Wells,
the Bar-Kays,
Porter Ricks,
Ultravox,
Laurel Aitken,
Rod Modell,
Magma,
Harry Pussy,
The Gun Club, The Gun Club, The Gun Club, The Gun Club.
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.