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 Winnipeg.
But I was there.
I was there in 1971.
I was there at the first Big Star show in Memphis.
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 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Glasgow and Bremen.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Tehran 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 at the first Suicide practice in a loft in New York.
I was working on the harpsichord 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 EPMD to the funk kids.
I played it at CBGB's.
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 Althea and Donna. All the underground hits.
All Echospace tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Drive Like Jehu record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal funk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a harpsichord and a theremin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Faust record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought an arpeggiator.
I hear that you and your band have sold your arpeggiator 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 Names,
Anthony Braxton,
Television Personalities,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
The Jesus and Mary Chain,
Jesper Dahlback,
Sugar Minott,
Ultravox,
Stetsasonic,
Godley & Creme,
Flash Fearless,
Section 25,
Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
Circle Jerks,
Jerry Gold Smith,
The New Christs,
LL Cool J,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
Black Moon,
Henry Cow,
Accadde A,
Cymande,
Ludus,
AZ,
Boz Scaggs,
10cc,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
The Velvet Underground,
Schoolly D,
Agent Orange,
The Pretty Things,
X-Ray Spex,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
Nick Fraelich,
The Monks,
Ash Ra Tempel,
Gang Gang Dance,
Easy Going,
Gichy Dan,
The Busters,
Jeff Lynne,
Stereo Dub,
Crispy Ambulance,
Albert Ayler,
Massinfluence,
Gerry Rafferty,
R.M.O.,
Fat Boys,
Alton Ellis,
Icehouse,
Sun City Girls,
Jawbox,
The United States of America,
New Order,
Kas Product,
The Angels of Light,
Deepchord,
The Golliwogs,
Black Flag,
Aural Exciters,
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.