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 Japan and from Portland.
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 1964 to 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Milan and Tokyo.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Lyon 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 1976 at the first Chic practice in a loft in New York.
I was working on the güiro sounds with much patience.
I was there when Michael McDonald 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 Section 25 to the grime kids.
I played it at the Troubador.
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 Al Stewart. All the underground hits.
All Tim Buckley tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every the Normal record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal funk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a snare and a spring reverb and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Gary Puckett & The Union Gap record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a snare.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought a theremin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
La Düsseldorf,
Drive Like Jehu,
DJ Style,
Man Parrish,
Radio Birdman,
Delon & Dalcan,
Con Funk Shun,
China Crisis,
Royal Trux,
Porter Ricks,
Tomorrow,
Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane,
The Sisters of Mercy,
Buzzcocks,
The New Christs,
Barbara Tucker,
The Sound,
the Slits,
Youth Brigade,
John Cale,
Kenny Larkin,
Eric Copeland,
Echospace,
Section 25,
Cal Tjader,
Funky Four + One,
Alice Coltrane,
Boredoms,
Zapp,
Flash Fearless,
Kas Product,
The Knickerbockers,
Blancmange,
Depeche Mode,
Tubeway Army,
Rod Modell,
CMW,
Little Man,
Piero Umiliani,
Gerry Rafferty,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Malaria!,
Chrome,
Unwound,
Leonard Cohen,
the Germs,
Intrusion,
Lou Christie,
Bobby Byrd,
Neil Young,
The Pop Group,
Skriet,
Moss Icon,
Basic Channel,
Fatback Band,
Pantaleimon,
Dawn Penn,
Gang Starr,
The Sonics, The Sonics, The Sonics, The Sonics.
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.