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 Italy and from Jakarta.
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 1960 to 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Seoul and London.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Copenhagen 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 synthesizer sounds with much patience.
I was there when Donald Fagen 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 Blossom Toes to the punk 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 Fugazi. All the underground hits.
All Index tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Arthur Verocai record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rock 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 chamberlin and a guitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Magma record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a 808.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Sound Behaviour,
Silicon Teens,
The Five Americans,
Todd Rundgren,
Sarah Menescal,
Albert Ayler,
The Standells,
Spoonie Gee,
Cal Tjader,
The Names,
The Misunderstood,
MDC,
Yaz,
FM Einheit,
Scott Walker,
Skaos,
Frankie Knuckles,
Fatback Band,
Toni Rubio,
Nick Fraelich,
Ultra Naté,
Lou Christie,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
Boz Scaggs,
Soul II Soul,
kango's stein massive,
New York Dolls,
CMW,
Aaron Thompson,
Spandau Ballet,
Alphaville,
Judy Mowatt,
Siglo XX,
Alton Ellis,
Suicide,
Tears for Fears,
The Pretty Things,
Shuggie Otis,
Visage,
K-Klass,
Dark Day,
The Martian,
Theoretical Girls,
Roxy Music,
Sun City Girls,
Panda Bear,
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band,
David McCallum,
David Axelrod,
Archie Shepp,
the Soft Cell,
Fat Boys,
The Beau Brummels,
Bizarre Inc.,
Newcleus,
World's Most,
Icehouse,
The Electric Prunes,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Moss Icon,
The Toasters,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
Television Personalities, Television Personalities, Television Personalities, Television Personalities.
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.