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 Kingdom and from Taipei.
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 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in New York and Cairo.
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 organ sounds with much patience.
I was there when Nile Rodgers 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 Deepchord to the grunge 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 Traffic Nightmare. All the underground hits.
All Leonard Cohen tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Todd Rundgren record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal punk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a spring reverb and a linndrum and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Sound Behaviour record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a theremin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Avey Tare,
Absolute Body Control,
Warren Ellis,
Moss Icon,
Lalo Schifrin,
Motorama,
Crispy Ambulance,
John Lydon,
The Peanut Butter Conspiracy,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Ice-T,
The Standells,
John Holt,
Fatback Band,
Gong,
Don Cherry,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Parry Music,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
Louis and Bebe Barron,
The Mummies,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
Mad Mike,
Quantec,
Michelle Simonal,
Banda Bassotti,
Jacques Brel,
Ludus,
London Community Gospel Choir,
Todd Terry,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
Bush Tetras,
Crash Course in Science,
The Grass Roots,
Sixth Finger,
Laurel Aitken,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
Idris Muhammad,
Essential Logic,
The Black Dice,
Pet Shop Boys,
D'Angelo,
Los Fastidios,
AZ,
Josef K,
The Angels of Light,
The Litter,
DJ Style,
The Velvet Underground,
Popol Vuh,
Joyce Sims,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
June Days,
JFA,
Godley & Creme,
Arcadia,
Sunsets and Hearts,
Flipper,
The Invisible,
Rosa Yemen,
Electric Prunes,
Altered Images,
Cameo,
Roxy Music, Roxy Music, Roxy Music, Roxy Music.
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.