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 Seychelles and from Bremen.
But I was there.
I was there in 1978.
I was there at the first Visage show in 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 1969 to 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Cairo and Columbus.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Hong Kong 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 guitar 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 The New Christs to the crunk kids.
I played it at the 40 Watt.
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 La Düsseldorf. All the underground hits.
All Oppenheimer Analysis tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Doors record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grime 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 harpsichord and an organ and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Anakelly record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a güiro.
I hear that you and your band have sold your güiro and bought a theremin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Black Dice,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Negative Approach,
Gabor Szabo,
KRS-One,
Hashim,
Ituana,
Spoonie Gee,
Matthew Bourne,
Amazonics,
Guru Guru,
The Index,
The Fire Engines,
The Gap Band,
Kas Product,
Zero Boys,
Patti Smith,
DJ Style,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Bobby Byrd,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
Fear,
The Fall,
Hot Snakes,
Infiniti,
The Gun Club,
Dawn Penn,
Amon Düül II,
Technova,
Glambeats Corp.,
DNA,
Slick Rick,
Average White Band,
Country Teasers,
the Swans,
the Slits,
Whodini,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
Pylon,
The Searchers,
Yaz,
The Velvet Underground,
Brass Construction,
The Evens,
Quadrant,
Half Japanese,
Section 25,
Freddie Wadling,
Nils Olav,
Unrelated Segments,
Excepter,
LL Cool J,
Fort Wilson Riot,
Alice Coltrane,
Skaos,
Glenn Branca,
The Mummies,
Sonic Youth,
The Buckinghams,
Nico,
Sixth Finger,
Lightning Bolt,
The Gladiators,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon, Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon, Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon, Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon.
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.