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 Greece and from Columbus.
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 1962 to 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Spokane and Woodstock.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Portland 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 1976 at the first Wire practice in a loft in Watford.
I was working on the synthesizer 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 Crime to the rap 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 Gang Starr. All the underground hits.
All DeepChord presents Echospace tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Aloha Tigers record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rap hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying an organ and a harpsichord and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a B.T. Express record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your marimba and bought an oboe.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a marimba.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Sight & Sound,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Yusef Lateef,
Fugazi,
Subhumans,
Shuggie Otis,
The Fuzztones,
Reuben Wilson,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
Sällskapet,
Section 25,
The Dead C,
Girls At Our Best!,
Lucky Dragons,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
David McCallum,
Amon Düül II,
Patti Smith,
Crooked Eye,
World's Most,
Y Pants,
Althea and Donna,
X-101,
Los Fastidios,
Sarah Menescal,
The Birthday Party,
Groovy Waters,
Letta Mbulu,
Quantec,
Kurtis Blow,
Pagans,
Visage,
the Sonics,
Roxette,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Henry Cow,
Terry Callier,
Tubeway Army,
Television Personalities,
Sugar Minott,
Adolescents,
The Sisters of Mercy,
DJ Style,
Brand Nubian,
Jeff Mills,
Vainqueur,
Jerry Gold Smith,
Marcia Griffiths,
The Golliwogs,
the Soft Cell,
R.M.O.,
Wasted Youth,
Blancmange,
Deadbeat,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
The Gun Club,
Brass Construction,
The Peanut Butter Conspiracy,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
Tropical Tobacco,
Lou Reed, Lou Reed, Lou Reed, Lou Reed.
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.