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 Serbia and from Madrid.
But I was there.
I was there in 1984.
I was there at the first Arcadia 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 1965 to 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Salvador and Mexico City.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school New York 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 harpsichord 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 The Tremeloes to the disco kids.
I played it at Cafe Wha.
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 Roxette. All the underground hits.
All Johnny Clarke tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Chrome 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 '80s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a spring reverb and a synthesizer and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Vaughan Mason & Crew record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought an oboe.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a snare.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
Roxy Music,
Blossom Toes,
The Remains,
Electric Light Orchestra,
Kurtis Blow,
Bill Wells,
The Flesh Eaters,
The Walker Brothers,
The Busters,
Judy Mowatt,
Fela Kuti,
Lee Hazlewood,
Minny Pops,
Pussy Galore,
Idris Muhammad,
The Motions,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Los Fastidios,
Livin' Joy,
The Mighty Diamonds,
Cecil Taylor,
Amazonics,
Agent Orange,
Roger Hodgson,
Newcleus,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
Drexciya,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Trumans Water,
The Toasters,
L. Decosne,
Charles Mingus,
Ultimate Spinach,
Spoonie Gee,
Erasure,
Easy Going,
John Coltrane,
Thompson Twins,
Eric Copeland,
Peter & Gordon,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
The Count Five,
Jandek,
The Sonics,
Whodini,
Aaron Thompson,
The Knickerbockers,
Groovy Waters,
The Moleskins,
World's Most,
Con Funk Shun,
Eden Ahbez,
Sex Pistols,
The Move,
Porter Ricks,
Saccharine Trust,
Wings,
Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines,
Marine Girls,
Cabaret Voltaire,
The Chocolate Watch Band, The Chocolate Watch Band, The Chocolate Watch Band, The Chocolate Watch Band.
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.