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 Mauritania and from Mexico City.
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 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Copenhagen and Delhi.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Seoul 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 rhodes 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 Au Pairs to the disco 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 Altered Images. All the underground hits.
All Stereo Dub tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Evens 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 '60s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a theremin and a marimba and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Slackers record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a chamberlin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Nas,
Eric Copeland,
Funkadelic,
Agitation Free,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Roger Hodgson,
Gang Gang Dance,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
Iggy Pop,
Fat Boys,
Banda Bassotti,
The Motions,
Cheater Slicks,
Bobbi Humphrey,
Jacques Brel,
Radiopuhelimet,
Spandau Ballet,
Aloha Tigers,
Rapeman,
Leonard Cohen,
X-Ray Spex,
Toni Rubio,
Sight & Sound,
The Alarm Clocks,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
The Divine Comedy,
Subhumans,
Los Fastidios,
Dual Sessions,
Pantaleimon,
Jawbox,
Bobby Womack,
Icehouse,
Erykah Badu,
Pantytec,
Radiohead,
June of 44,
Neu!,
Lower 48,
Bootsy's Rubber Band,
The Blackbyrds,
Arcadia,
Duran Duran,
Quadrant,
Joe Finger,
It's A Beautiful Day,
The Leaves,
Marcia Griffiths,
Ice-T,
Todd Terry,
Soft Machine,
Traffic Nightmare,
Howard Jones,
Visage,
June Days,
Intrusion,
Frankie Knuckles,
Slick Rick,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
Scrapy,
F. McDonald,
Agent Orange,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience, Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience, Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience, Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience.
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.