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 Saudi Arabia and from Shanghai.
But I was there.
I was there in 1971.
I was there at the first Big Star show in Memphis.
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 1961 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Bremen and Lille.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Halifax 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 1977 at the first Mistral practice in a loft in Amsterdam.
I was working on the synthesizer sounds with much patience.
I was there when Lou Reed 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 The Zeros to the funk 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 Lou Reed & John Cale. All the underground hits.
All Brass Construction tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Scan 7 record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal funk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a spring reverb and an oboe and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Talk Talk record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a 808.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a sitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Sonic Youth,
Throbbing Gristle,
Nation of Ulysses,
The Dirtbombs,
10cc,
Hashim,
Man Parrish,
Swell Maps,
L. Decosne,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
David McCallum,
Mantronix,
China Crisis,
Grey Daturas,
The Mighty Diamonds,
Don Cherry,
The Index,
Brass Construction,
The Birthday Party,
The Gories,
F. McDonald,
Lou Reed,
Funkadelic,
Duran Duran,
Nas,
Yaz,
Infiniti,
AZ,
David Axelrod,
Country Teasers,
Frankie Knuckles,
Tomorrow,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Section 25,
New Order,
Lalann,
Derrick May,
Monolake,
Curtis Mayfield,
The Saints,
Animal Collective,
Barbara Tucker,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
Loose Ends,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
DJ Style,
Fifty Foot Hose,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
The Velvet Underground,
The Martian,
Thompson Twins,
Mission of Burma,
Nik Kershaw,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Echospace,
The Associates,
A Certain Ratio,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Outsiders,
Alton Ellis,
The Royal Family And The Poor, The Royal Family And The Poor, The Royal Family And The Poor, The Royal Family And The Poor.
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.