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 Mumbai.
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 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Houston and Mexico City.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Seoul 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 arpeggiator 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 Stereo Dub 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 Be Bop Deluxe. All the underground hits.
All Maurizio tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Spoonie Gee record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grunge hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying an organ and a theremin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Cabaret Voltaire record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Blues Magoos,
Shoche,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Quando Quango,
8 Eyed Spy,
Harry Pussy,
Shuggie Otis,
Crispy Ambulance,
Don Cherry,
The Martian,
Hardrive,
Blake Baxter,
Art Ensemble Of Chicago,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
The Raincoats,
Sam Rivers,
Amazonics,
Joe Finger,
Harmonia,
Andrew Hill,
Bootsy's Rubber Band,
The Durutti Column,
Delta 5,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
The Moody Blues,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Ituana,
Nation of Ulysses,
Pere Ubu,
Index,
Chrome,
The Searchers,
Franke,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
Lakeside,
Terrestrial Tones,
Average White Band,
Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson,
Yellowson,
Section 25,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
Grauzone,
Chris Corsano,
Fugazi,
Visage,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
Black Flag,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
Jawbox,
Liliput,
Animal Collective,
Bang on a Can All-Stars,
Sonny Sharrock,
Minutemen,
Marine Girls,
Pantaleimon,
Mandrill,
Grey Daturas,
Piero Umiliani,
Barry Ungar,
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark,
Ludus,
Laurel Aitken, Laurel Aitken, Laurel Aitken, Laurel Aitken.
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.