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 Montenegro and from London.
But I was there.
I was there in 1979.
I was there at the first Josef K show in Edinburgh.
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 1966 to 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Shanghai and Hong Kong.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Lille 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 spring reverb 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 John Coltrane to the techno 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 Tomorrow. All the underground hits.
All Marvin Gaye tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Raincoats record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal funk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a güiro and an arpeggiator and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Sun Ra Arkestra record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a clarinet.
I hear that you and your band have sold your clarinet and bought a mellotron.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Yaz,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Radio Birdman,
Desert Stars,
Stockholm Monsters,
the Association,
Gong,
Television Personalities,
Bush Tetras,
Lightning Bolt,
The Fortunes,
The Seeds,
Soulsonic Force,
EPMD,
Khruangbin,
Malaria!,
Delon & Dalcan,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
The Tremeloes,
The Gories,
Kayak,
Amon Düül II,
Silicon Teens,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Freddie Wadling,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
Donny Hathaway,
Agent Orange,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
Marine Girls,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
Alphaville,
Eric Dolphy,
Sound Behaviour,
Al Stewart,
The Cure,
Jimmy McGriff,
The Motions,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
Alton Ellis,
Bronski Beat,
Gichy Dan,
Be Bop Deluxe,
The Real Kids,
Cabaret Voltaire,
The Buckinghams,
The Durutti Column,
Surgeon,
Sad Lovers and Giants,
The Detroit Cobras,
In Retrospect,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
Marvin Gaye,
Eden Ahbez,
Boredoms,
New York Dolls,
Sarah Menescal,
Heaven 17,
Accadde A,
Tears for Fears,
The Human League, The Human League, The Human League, The Human League.
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.