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 Czech Republic and from Delhi.
But I was there.
I was there in 1983.
I was there at the first Art of Noise 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 1962 to 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Lagos and Lyon.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Calgary 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 mellotron 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 Arab on Radar to the grime 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 Jeru the Damaja. All the underground hits.
All Jeru the Damaja tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Jerry's Kids 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 '60s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a marimba and a güiro and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Moss Icon record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a güiro.
I hear that you and your band have sold your güiro and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
Dave Gahan,
The Angels of Light,
Gang of Four,
World's Most,
Fluxion,
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band,
Minor Threat,
Todd Rundgren,
Quando Quango,
Spoonie Gee,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
Black Moon,
Echo & the Bunnymen,
The Gap Band,
Glambeats Corp.,
Country Teasers,
Erasure,
Fugazi,
10cc,
Gang Starr,
The Monochrome Set,
Absolute Body Control,
Subhumans,
Echospace,
Gastr Del Sol,
Reuben Wilson,
Teenage Jesus and the Jerks,
James White and The Blacks,
Jeff Lynne,
Alton Ellis,
Grauzone,
Heaven 17,
Tommy Roe,
Soul Sonic Force,
Darondo,
Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme,
DJ Style,
Mandrill,
Carl Craig,
Robert Görl,
Bobby Womack,
Marvin Gaye,
Lower 48,
Section 25,
Swans,
The Moody Blues,
Mars,
Howard Jones,
Ohio Players,
Johnny Clarke,
Robert Wyatt,
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
Parry Music,
Banda Bassotti,
China Crisis,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
Rufus Thomas,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
Lalo Schifrin,
Ten City,
Zapp,
Jerry's Kids,
Chris Corsano, Chris Corsano, Chris Corsano, Chris Corsano.
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.