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 Poland and from Mexico City.
But I was there.
I was there in 1979.
I was there at the first Second Layer show in South London.
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 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Cairo and Mexico City.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Edmonton 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 mellotron 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 Black Sheep to the techno 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 Trumans Water. All the underground hits.
All Infiniti tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal dance hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying an oboe and a snare and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Vainqueur record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a rhodes.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a mellotron.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx,
Gastr Del Sol,
The Smiths,
DJ Style,
Strawberry Alarm Clock,
The Seeds,
Television,
Howard Jones,
Delon & Dalcan,
Man Parrish,
Mantronix,
The Divine Comedy,
Inner City,
The Knickerbockers,
Metal Thangz,
Jesper Dahlback,
Roy Ayers Ubiquity,
Curtis Mayfield,
World's Most,
Desert Stars,
Nas,
The Peanut Butter Conspiracy,
Nico,
Zero Boys,
Spandau Ballet,
Ash Ra Tempel,
Mad Mike,
Aural Exciters,
the Slits,
Altered Images,
The Smoke,
Oppenheimer Analysis,
EPMD,
The Litter,
Lalann,
Qualms,
The Toasters,
Girls At Our Best!,
The Mummies,
Young Marble Giants,
The Zeros,
Donald Byrd,
Arcadia,
Pierre Henry,
Gil Scott Heron,
Radiopuhelimet,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
Sound Behaviour,
Depeche Mode,
Bob Dylan,
Bronski Beat,
Sixth Finger,
Con Funk Shun,
T. Rex,
Jerry's Kids,
PIL,
the Human League,
Kenny Larkin,
Jandek,
Rosa Yemen,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
Blake Baxter,
Panda Bear,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz, Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz, Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz, Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz.
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.