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 Serbia and from Edmonton.
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 1963 to 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Shanghai and Hong Kong.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Shanghai 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 organ sounds with much patience.
I was there when Michael McDonald 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 Surgeon to the grime 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 Stiv Bators. All the underground hits.
All Yellowson tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every New Age Steppers record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grunge hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying an arpeggiator and a 808 and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Heaven 17 record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a chamberlin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought an oboe.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Roy Ayers,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
Be Bop Deluxe,
Freddie Wadling,
Alison Limerick,
James Chance & The Contortions,
Bob Dylan,
Donny Hathaway,
Black Moon,
Charles Mingus,
Animal Collective,
Trumans Water,
Marine Girls,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
The Last Poets,
Kango’s Stein Massive,
David McCallum,
Rotary Connection,
Talk Talk,
Crooked Eye,
The Leaves,
The Kinks,
Max Romeo,
Danielle Patucci,
Ultra Naté,
The Saints,
Tres Demented,
Panda Bear,
Livin' Joy,
Gil Scott Heron,
Kaleidoscope,
The Peanut Butter Conspiracy,
Lyres,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
The Beau Brummels,
Gastr Del Sol,
Buzzcocks,
Jimmy McGriff,
Brothers Johnson,
Audionom,
Derrick Morgan,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
Surgeon,
Icehouse,
Grey Daturas,
Jesper Dahlback,
A Flock of Seagulls,
Jacob Miller,
Maurizio,
Lakeside,
UT,
Quantec,
The Star Department,
Peter and Kerry,
The Fall,
Chris & Cosey,
Deadbeat,
The Fugs,
The Doors,
Amazonics,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz, Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz, Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz, Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz.
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.