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 Finland and from Houston.
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 1965 to 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Johannesburg and Lagos.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Mumbai 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 snare sounds with much patience.
I was there when Donald Fagen 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 Gerry Rafferty to the crunk kids.
I played it at the Hacienda.
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 Sunsets and Hearts. All the underground hits.
All One Last Wish tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every EPMD record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal disco 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 a linndrum and a guitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Max Romeo record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar 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?
Babytalk,
Funkadelic,
Zapp,
Liliput,
Eden Ahbez,
Eurythmics,
DNA,
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band,
The Smiths,
Marvin Gaye,
Von Mondo,
The Invisible,
It's A Beautiful Day,
Michelle Simonal,
June of 44,
Gerry Rafferty,
Sad Lovers and Giants,
The Fall,
Slave,
Cal Tjader,
Henry Cow,
Todd Terry,
Easy Going,
The Modern Lovers,
Animal Collective,
Camberwell Now,
Kas Product,
Black Flag,
The Men They Couldn't Hang,
Yazoo,
The Index,
Moby Grape,
The Star Department,
Tom Boy,
Country Teasers,
Excepter,
The Residents,
Matthew Halsall,
Thee Headcoats,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
The New Christs,
OOIOO,
The Leaves,
Intrusion,
Piero Umiliani,
X-101,
Siglo XX,
The Remains,
Section 25,
Metal Thangz,
Lungfish,
June Days,
Matthew Bourne,
Black Moon,
Amazonics,
Au Pairs,
Hardrive,
Harry Pussy,
Tubeway Army,
Quadrant,
Rhythim Is Rhythim, Rhythim Is Rhythim, Rhythim Is Rhythim, Rhythim Is Rhythim.
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.