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 Afghanistan and from Bremen.
But I was there.
I was there in 1980.
I was there at the first Cybotron show in Detroit.
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 1967 to 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Hong Kong and Copenhagen.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Beijing 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 sitar 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 Gastr Del Sol to the grunge kids.
I played it at Trash.
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 Todd Rundgren. All the underground hits.
All Avey Tare tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Babytalk 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 '60s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a linndrum and a spring reverb and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Lizzy Mercier Descloux record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a rhodes.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought an oboe.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
Ronan,
The Young Rascals,
Sexual Harrassment,
Junior Murvin,
Q and Not U,
The Zeros,
Harpers Bizarre,
Jeff Lynne,
The Alarm Clocks,
Bobby Hutcherson,
the Bar-Kays,
Warsaw,
Supertramp,
Matthew Bourne,
Lungfish,
Prince Buster,
The Sound,
Matthew Halsall,
Cluster,
New Age Steppers,
Groovy Waters,
Altered Images,
Neil Young,
Fort Wilson Riot,
Maurizio,
Mantronix,
Jacques Brel,
Cymande,
The Wake,
Agent Orange,
The Offenders,
U.S. Maple,
Susan Cadogan,
Bauhaus,
Scott Walker,
The Standells,
Charles Mingus,
One Last Wish,
the Soft Cell,
Scratch Acid,
Connie Case,
Lebanon Hanover,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Technova,
Panda Bear,
The Litter,
Joyce Sims,
Tubeway Army,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
Negative Approach,
Motorama,
Janne Schatter,
Tomorrow,
The New Christs,
Rosa Yemen,
The Knickerbockers,
The Star Department,
Sun Ra,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Con Funk Shun,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch, Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch, Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch, Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch.
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.