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 Korea North and from Houston.
But I was there.
I was there in 1971.
I was there at the first Big Star show in Memphis.
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 1967 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Toronto and Tokyo.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Halifax 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 1977 at the first Mistral practice in a loft in Amsterdam.
I was working on the linndrum sounds with much patience.
I was there when Lou Reed 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 Yellowson to the techno kids.
I played it at Trash.
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 Danielle Patucci. All the underground hits.
All Brass Construction tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Gichy Dan 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 '60s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a theremin and a synthesizer and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Zeros record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your clarinet and bought an oboe.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a clarinet.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Stetsasonic,
Arthur Verocai,
Bluetip,
Louis and Bebe Barron,
Patti Smith,
EPMD,
Newcleus,
Royal Trux,
La Düsseldorf,
Groovy Waters,
The Star Department,
Blake Baxter,
Idris Muhammad,
Little Man,
Siglo XX,
Jacques Brel,
Scion,
Reuben Wilson,
Television Personalities,
Ornette Coleman,
The Peanut Butter Conspiracy,
The Monks,
Roger Hodgson,
Charles Mingus,
Faust,
The Jesus and Mary Chain,
Eli Mardock,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
Kaleidoscope,
The Fortunes,
Mars,
8 Eyed Spy,
Hot Snakes,
Chrome,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Johnny Clarke,
Urselle,
Tubeway Army,
One Last Wish,
Archie Shepp,
Bill Wells,
James White and The Blacks,
Moebius,
Blancmange,
The Names,
Moby Grape,
Lyres,
Todd Rundgren,
Lebanon Hanover,
F. McDonald,
kango's stein massive,
Connie Case,
Youth Brigade,
The Blackbyrds,
Richard Hell and the Voidoids,
Nas,
ABC,
Joe Smooth,
The Associates,
Wasted Youth,
Motorama,
Peter & Gordon, Peter & Gordon, Peter & Gordon, Peter & Gordon.
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.