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 Maldives and from Woodstock.
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 1966 to 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Mexico City and Lille.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Johannesburg 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 chamberlin sounds with much patience.
I was there when Holger Czukay 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 Crispian St. Peters to the dance kids.
I played it at the Crocodile.
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 The Barracudas. All the underground hits.
All Procol Harum tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every James Chance & The Contortions 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 clarinet and a guitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Neil Young & Crazy Horse record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your clarinet and bought a mellotron.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a clarinet.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Pere Ubu,
Pet Shop Boys,
Boogie Down Productions,
Bill Wells,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
Chris & Cosey,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
The Moody Blues,
Q and Not U,
The Angels of Light,
Simply Red,
The Barracudas,
Quando Quango,
The Index,
Warren Ellis,
Flipper,
Carl Craig,
The Grass Roots,
Mark Hollis,
Tres Demented,
Oppenheimer Analysis,
Ultimate Spinach,
Throbbing Gristle,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Suicide,
Louis and Bebe Barron,
Groovy Waters,
Can,
Rapeman,
Lower 48,
Swans,
Gang Starr,
Ten City,
Gastr Del Sol,
Magazine,
Eyeless In Gaza,
Howard Jones,
The Smiths,
The Gories,
James White and The Blacks,
Sly & The Family Stone,
Q65,
London Community Gospel Choir,
Soul II Soul,
John Cale,
The Real Kids,
Bootsy's Rubber Band,
Leonard Cohen,
Joyce Sims,
Connie Case,
Electric Prunes,
Spoonie Gee,
Rakim,
The Music Machine,
Easy Going,
Archie Shepp,
the Association,
Faust,
the Bar-Kays,
Kerri Chandler,
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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.