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 Mali and from Portland.
But I was there.
I was there in 2001.
I was there at the first Tiga show in Montreal.
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 1960 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Glasgow and Manila.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Accra 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 marimba 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 MDC to the rap kids.
I played it at the Hacienda.
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 Scrapy. All the underground hits.
All Aaron Thompson tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Audionom record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal disco 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 spring reverb and a chamberlin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Pop Group record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a rhodes.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Scott Walker,
Idris Muhammad,
DJ Sneak,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
Sexual Harrassment,
Drexciya,
Sly & The Family Stone,
The Victims,
One Last Wish,
Khruangbin,
Ronan,
DJ Style,
Scrapy,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Pole,
The Durutti Column,
The Offenders,
Jacques Brel,
Shuggie Otis,
X-101,
Quadrant,
the Human League,
Pussy Galore,
Hoover,
The Stooges,
Kings Of Tomorrow,
Pere Ubu,
the Sonics,
Animal Collective,
Tropical Tobacco,
Clear Light,
Essential Logic,
Bootsy's Rubber Band,
Gichy Dan,
Motorama,
Nico,
Bluetip,
10cc,
Basic Channel,
Peter & Gordon,
Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
Scion,
The Divine Comedy,
The Leaves,
Whodini,
Bobby Sherman,
Skarface,
Godley & Creme,
The Mummies,
Glambeats Corp.,
Cabaret Voltaire,
Piero Umiliani,
Aaron Thompson,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
Second Layer,
Roy Ayers Ubiquity,
Technova,
Unrelated Segments,
The Dead C,
Joe Smooth,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
Neil Young, Neil Young, Neil Young, Neil Young.
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.