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 Cape Verde and from Spokane.
But I was there.
I was there in 1983.
I was there at the first Lewis show in Vancouver.
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 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Tehran and Paris.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Paris 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 Tom Verlaine 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 New Order to the rap 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 Neil Young & Crazy Horse. All the underground hits.
All The Happenings tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Crime record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal jazz hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a güiro and a synthesizer and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Massinfluence record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your harpsichord and bought a sitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a harpsichord.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Peter and Kerry,
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band,
Darondo,
Johnny Clarke,
The Standells,
Lou Christie,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Sight & Sound,
Gang Gang Dance,
Cecil Taylor,
Dawn Penn,
The Evens,
Bang On A Can,
Carl Craig,
X-102,
Audionom,
Andrew Hill,
the Sonics,
Harpers Bizarre,
Laurel Aitken,
Peter & Gordon,
Dual Sessions,
Anakelly,
Robert Wyatt,
The Fire Engines,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
The Victims,
Graham Central Station,
The Wake,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
Television,
Kango’s Stein Massive,
The Motions,
The Barracudas,
Smog,
Sunsets and Hearts,
Magazine,
David Axelrod,
Bad Manners,
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark,
Masters at Work,
Eve St. Jones,
Man Parrish,
The Shadows of Knight,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
Sexual Harrassment,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
Oneida,
Make Up,
Sarah Menescal,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
Public Enemy,
Gang Starr,
Neu!,
The Sound,
Soul II Soul,
Delon & Dalcan,
Babytalk,
Banda Bassotti,
The Blackbyrds,
Alton Ellis,
Ash Ra Tempel,
Tom Boy,
Dave Gahan, Dave Gahan, Dave Gahan, Dave Gahan.
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.