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 Germany and from New York.
But I was there.
I was there in 1983.
I was there at the first Lewis show in Vancouver.
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 1964 to 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Mumbai and Shanghai.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Lagos 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 chamberlin 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 Kayak to the techno kids.
I played it at the 40 Watt.
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 Lyres. All the underground hits.
All The Motions tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Grandmaster Flash 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 '70s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a sitar and a snare and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Dawn Penn record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your clarinet and bought a spring reverb.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a clarinet.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Red Lorry Yellow Lorry,
Schoolly D,
Easy Going,
Bill Wells,
Pet Shop Boys,
The Last Poets,
Crooked Eye,
The Busters,
Iggy Pop,
Model 500,
Toni Rubio,
Dead Boys,
Q and Not U,
The Five Americans,
Arab on Radar,
Delta 5,
Main Source,
Zero Boys,
Television Personalities,
The Martian,
The Sound,
Gabor Szabo,
John Foxx,
Avey Tare's Slasher Flicks,
Nils Olav,
Nas,
Inner City,
Peter and Kerry,
The Dave Clark Five,
Dave Gahan,
UT,
The Smoke,
Bauhaus,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
Public Image Ltd.,
K-Klass,
Zapp,
Aloha Tigers,
Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme,
Kas Product,
Quantec,
Eli Mardock,
EPMD,
The Alarm Clocks,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
Ten City,
The Invisible,
Minutemen,
Radiopuhelimet,
Yusef Lateef,
Matthew Halsall,
The Cramps,
David Axelrod,
Khruangbin,
Chrome,
Drexciya,
Gregory Isaacs,
Boogie Down Productions,
Art Ensemble Of Chicago,
Gastr Del Sol,
Subhumans,
Altered Images,
Sonic Youth,
Flash Fearless,
The Toasters, The Toasters, The Toasters, The Toasters.
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.