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 United States and from Jakarta.
But I was there.
I was there in 1977.
I was there at the first Zapp show in Hamilton.
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 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Portland and Copenhagen.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Spokane 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 Avey Tare to the techno 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 Kool G Rap & DJ Polo. All the underground hits.
All Unwound tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Fugs record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal techno 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 808 and a spring reverb and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Second Layer record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your clarinet and bought a clarinet.
I hear that you and your band have sold your clarinet and bought a clarinet.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Marcia Griffiths,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
UT,
Sonic Youth,
a-ha,
Cameo,
Icehouse,
Intrusion,
Fugazi,
The Moleskins,
The Grass Roots,
Roger Hodgson,
Aaron Thompson,
The Wake,
The Cramps,
Television,
Neu!,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Cluster,
Bootsy Collins,
U.S. Maple,
Lou Christie,
ABBA,
Ralphi Rosario,
June of 44,
Ludus,
Liaisons Dangereuses,
Trumans Water,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
Deakin,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
The Selecter,
Michelle Simonal,
Stiv Bators,
The Skatalites,
DJ Sneak,
KRS-One,
Sight & Sound,
Be Bop Deluxe,
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
Interpol,
ABC,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
Kenny Larkin,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Selector Dub Narcotic,
A Flock of Seagulls,
Laurel Aitken,
OOIOO,
the Sonics,
Rekid,
Cecil Taylor,
Basic Channel,
Livin' Joy,
Scion,
Toni Rubio,
Alison Limerick,
The Searchers,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
Tomorrow,
Soulsonic Force,
Half Japanese, Half Japanese, Half Japanese, Half Japanese.
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.