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 Lithuania and from Accra.
But I was there.
I was there in 1976.
I was there at the first Soft Boys show in Cambridge.
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 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Salvador and Seoul.
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 güiro sounds with much patience.
I was there when Donald Fagen 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 Music Machine to the punk 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 Glenn Branca. All the underground hits.
All Stereo Dub tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Marine Girls 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 '70s.
I hear you're buying a 808 and a snare and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Eurythmics record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought a linndrum.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a snare.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Pierre Henry,
Model 500,
Basic Channel,
Rekid,
Sonic Youth,
Sun Ra,
Aural Exciters,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Oblivians,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
Drive Like Jehu,
DJ Sneak,
Black Sheep,
The Selecter,
Panda Bear,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
The Names,
Grandmaster Flash,
The Golliwogs,
The Monochrome Set,
Glenn Branca,
Ronnie Foster,
Magma,
Deepchord,
Suicide,
The Black Dice,
Newcleus,
In Retrospect,
Nirvana,
Pantaleimon,
Half Japanese,
The Leaves,
Desert Stars,
The Standells,
Pere Ubu,
The Human League,
Camberwell Now,
The Sound,
Fugazi,
Gang Starr,
Junior Murvin,
Flash Fearless,
Electric Light Orchestra,
Peter and Kerry,
Max Romeo,
Barrington Levy,
Howard Jones,
David McCallum,
Mary Jane Girls,
The Stooges,
The Happenings,
Can,
The Mighty Diamonds,
Pussy Galore,
Gabor Szabo,
The Zeros,
Jacob Miller,
Lower 48,
Main Source,
Quadrant,
Bootsy Collins,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
Swans,
Q and Not U, Q and Not U, Q and Not U, Q and Not U.
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.