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 Cuba and from Tokyo.
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 1964 to 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Madrid and Manila.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Woodstock 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 guitar sounds with much patience.
I was there when Robert Palmer 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 Idris Muhammad to the grunge kids.
I played it at the Troubador.
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 Marshall Jefferson. All the underground hits.
All Joensuu 1685 tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Cluster record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal jazz 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 snare and a marimba and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Lou Christie record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a linndrum.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a 808.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Visage,
Sparks,
Ossler,
The Pretty Things,
The Busters,
The Peanut Butter Conspiracy,
Danielle Patucci,
Sight & Sound,
Joensuu 1685,
Metal Thangz,
Man Parrish,
Mission of Burma,
Wings,
The Buckinghams,
Eurythmics,
Nick Fraelich,
Bobby Byrd,
Maurizio,
Rakim,
Mad Mike,
Oblivians,
The Raincoats,
Barbara Tucker,
The Beau Brummels,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
Harry Pussy,
Marvin Gaye,
Blancmange,
Technova,
Mars,
The Blues Magoos,
The United States of America,
Ronnie Foster,
Suburban Knight,
Scratch Acid,
Darondo,
Throbbing Gristle,
Gang of Four,
Kool Moe Dee,
Rhythm & Sound,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Arab on Radar,
Barclay James Harvest,
Alton Ellis,
Magazine,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
The Fuzztones,
Popol Vuh,
The Neon Judgement,
The Music Machine,
Television,
The New Christs,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
The Residents,
Second Layer,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
The Doobie Brothers,
Y Pants,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
Babytalk,
Skarface,
Panda Bear,
Audionom,
Alice Coltrane,
Das Ding, Das Ding, Das Ding, Das Ding.
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.