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 Tonga and from Portland.
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 1965 to 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Manchester and Shanghai.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Columbus 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 Justin Hinds & The Dominoes to the rock kids.
I played it at the Roxy.
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 Susan Cadogan. All the underground hits.
All Yazoo 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 techno hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying an oboe and a mellotron and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Wasted Youth record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a linndrum.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a mellotron.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Alton Ellis,
K-Klass,
the Association,
Motorama,
Bobby Womack,
Freddie Wadling,
Marshall Jefferson,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
Urselle,
The Durutti Column,
Glenn Branca,
Strawberry Alarm Clock,
Second Layer,
The Gladiators,
OOIOO,
Pet Shop Boys,
Television Personalities,
The Index,
E-Dancer,
Procol Harum,
Franke,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
AZ,
Laurel Aitken,
The Jesus and Mary Chain,
Maleditus Sound,
Lucky Dragons,
Los Fastidios,
Kurtis Blow,
Yellowson,
Bobby Sherman,
Eric Copeland,
Piero Umiliani,
MDC,
Soft Cell,
Bootsy's Rubber Band,
Suburban Knight,
Theoretical Girls,
Mars,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Warren Ellis,
Jesper Dahlback,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Ronnie Foster,
Marcia Griffiths,
Terry Callier,
Gang Gang Dance,
Ituana,
Gong,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
Fifty Foot Hose,
The Associates,
The Monochrome Set,
The J.B.'s,
Gerry Rafferty,
The Detroit Cobras,
Ohio Players,
Faraquet,
The Mojo Men,
Joe Smooth,
Chris Corsano,
Robert Görl,
Kerri Chandler,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic, Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic, Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic, Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic.
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.