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 Thailand and from Shanghai.
But I was there.
I was there in 1977.
I was there at the first Mistral show in Amsterdam.
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 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Bremen and Woodstock.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Manila 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 linndrum sounds with much patience.
I was there when David Bowie 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 Delon & Dalcan to the grunge 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 Joe Finger. All the underground hits.
All The Raincoats tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Echospace record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal electroclash hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a rhodes and a theremin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Bush Tetras record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a rhodes.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Jeff Mills,
Skarface,
Bluetip,
The Black Dice,
Johnny Clarke,
Black Moon,
Zero Boys,
Groovy Waters,
The Moody Blues,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
Marcia Griffiths,
A Flock of Seagulls,
Girls At Our Best!,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
Gian Franco Pienzio,
The United States of America,
Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane,
June Days,
Lightning Bolt,
Althea and Donna,
Harry Pussy,
Minutemen,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
Sonic Youth,
Grey Daturas,
48th St. Collective,
Minny Pops,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
Rakim,
Joe Finger,
Godley & Creme,
Bootsy Collins,
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
Q65,
Underground Resistance,
The Jesus and Mary Chain,
Malaria!,
Leonard Cohen,
Marmalade,
Ice-T,
The Gories,
Danielle Patucci,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
AZ,
Quando Quango,
Lebanon Hanover,
Kurtis Blow,
Boogie Down Productions,
Fifty Foot Hose,
Radiohead,
La Düsseldorf,
Sunsets and Hearts,
Dawn Penn,
Terrestrial Tones,
Bang on a Can All-Stars,
The Count Five,
Echo & the Bunnymen,
Adolescents,
DJ Style, DJ Style, DJ Style, DJ Style.
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.