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 Kosovo and from Bologna.
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 1961 to 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Glasgow and Madrid.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Milan 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 marimba sounds with much patience.
I was there when Tom Verlaine 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 The Count Five to the electroclash kids.
I played it at the Crocodile.
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 U.S. Maple. All the underground hits.
All Barbara Tucker tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Sound Behaviour record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grime 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 theremin and a sitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a mellotron.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a 808.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
Isaac Hayes,
Main Source,
Negative Approach,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
Big Daddy Kane,
Ossler,
Quantec,
La Düsseldorf,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Crooked Eye,
The Blackbyrds,
Barry Ungar,
Soft Machine,
The Dirtbombs,
Pantytec,
Niagra,
Mo-Dettes,
Marine Girls,
The J.B.'s,
Fela Kuti,
It's A Beautiful Day,
Yazoo,
The Mojo Men,
Grauzone,
Reagan Youth,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
Monks,
Rapeman,
Jimmy McGriff,
Sound Behaviour,
AZ,
Anakelly,
CMW,
The Seeds,
New York Dolls,
the Fania All-Stars,
John Holt,
Goldenarms,
Erasure,
Susan Cadogan,
cv313,
The Five Americans,
Pagans,
Fear,
Arcadia,
The Angels of Light,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
The Doors,
Ultimate Spinach,
The Smiths,
Radiopuhelimet,
Maurizio,
Subhumans,
Pierre Henry,
Nation of Ulysses,
Pet Shop Boys,
Cal Tjader,
The Red Krayola, The Red Krayola, The Red Krayola, The Red Krayola.
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.