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 Rwanda and from Delhi.
But I was there.
I was there in 1978.
I was there at the first Visage show in London.
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 1967 to 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Delhi and Mexico City.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Taipei 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 rhodes 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 Roxy Music to the disco 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 Zero Boys. All the underground hits.
All The Barracudas tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal crunk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a linndrum and a spring reverb and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a These Immortal Souls record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a linndrum.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a chamberlin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Men They Couldn't Hang,
New Age Steppers,
the Germs,
Andrew Hill,
Bootsy Collins,
Quadrant,
The Sonics,
The Monochrome Set,
Country Joe & The Fish,
Jeru the Damaja,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
The Gap Band,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
Electric Light Orchestra,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
Vladislav Delay,
The Dead C,
Tres Demented,
Q and Not U,
Yazoo,
The Golliwogs,
Ultimate Spinach,
Man Parrish,
Jandek,
Joe Smooth,
Marcia Griffiths,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
Bad Manners,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
Terrestrial Tones,
Youth Brigade,
Wire,
Anakelly,
Monolake,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Qualms,
Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines,
Sällskapet,
Sound Behaviour,
Sight & Sound,
Minor Threat,
Steve Hackett,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Kurtis Blow,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
In Retrospect,
Negative Approach,
Janne Schatter,
Kaleidoscope,
Young Marble Giants,
Nick Fraelich,
Procol Harum,
Animal Collective,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
World's Most,
Crash Course in Science,
Yaz,
The Divine Comedy,
Black Sheep,
The Motions,
the Soft Cell,
Unwound,
Roxy Music,
Big Daddy Kane,
Swell Maps, Swell Maps, Swell Maps, Swell Maps.
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.