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 Mexico and from Columbus.
But I was there.
I was there in 1980.
I was there at the first Cybotron show in Detroit.
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 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Madrid and Mumbai.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school London 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 sitar 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 Nirvana to the grunge kids.
I played it at the Roxy.
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 Cal Tjader. All the underground hits.
All Lakeside tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every 10cc record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rock hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a rhodes and a synthesizer and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Hardrive record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your clarinet and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a clarinet.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Ludus,
Matthew Halsall,
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band,
the Human League,
Avey Tare's Slasher Flicks,
Amazonics,
Lakeside,
Kas Product,
Dark Day,
R.M.O.,
John Lydon,
The Real Kids,
cv313,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
Maurizio,
Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft,
Camberwell Now,
Fatback Band,
The Fuzztones,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Absolute Body Control,
Bootsy's Rubber Band,
Echo & the Bunnymen,
Iggy Pop,
Ohio Players,
Yusef Lateef,
Massinfluence,
Heaven 17,
Fela Kuti,
Spandau Ballet,
These Immortal Souls,
Scratch Acid,
Loose Ends,
Juan Atkins,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
Bob Dylan,
Siglo XX,
The Leaves,
Quando Quango,
JFA,
Bill Near,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
The Flesh Eaters,
Q and Not U,
Sällskapet,
The New Christs,
Ten City,
Procol Harum,
Marc Almond,
The Young Rascals,
Colin Newman,
Reagan Youth,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
Lightning Bolt,
Peter and Kerry,
Lee Hazlewood,
Aural Exciters,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
Black Moon, Black Moon, Black Moon, Black Moon.
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.