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 Ukraine and from Madrid.
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 1963 to 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Accra and Cairo.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Tehran 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 oboe 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 Sun City Girls to the grunge kids.
I played it at the Spitz.
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 Barbara Tucker. All the underground hits.
All Arthur Verocai tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every OOIOO record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal techno hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a snare and a güiro and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Rod Modell record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought an oboe.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Cymande,
Prince Buster,
Shuggie Otis,
Neu!,
Young Marble Giants,
Black Flag,
Guru Guru,
Trumans Water,
The Velvet Underground,
China Crisis,
Inner City,
Toni Rubio,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
Marvin Gaye,
Khruangbin,
Smog,
Unwound,
Sonic Youth,
Hot Snakes,
Delta 5,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
Brick,
Icehouse,
UT,
The Motions,
The Kinks,
Tomorrow,
Flash Fearless,
Marc Romboy vs. Booka Shade,
Aloha Tigers,
Rites of Spring,
Deadbeat,
the Bar-Kays,
Kayak,
Marcia Griffiths,
Reagan Youth,
Joensuu 1685,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
The Beau Brummels,
Pylon,
Severed Heads,
The Stooges,
Gerry Rafferty,
Wire,
Agent Orange,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
Roxy Music,
Babytalk,
Ornette Coleman,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
Chris Corsano,
The Shadows of Knight,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
Slick Rick,
Max Romeo,
Jawbox,
Groovy Waters,
X-102,
Qualms, Qualms, Qualms, Qualms.
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.