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 Russia and from Mexico City.
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 1963 to 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Winnipeg and Tehran.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Sao Paulo 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 1979 at the first Second Layer practice in a loft in South London.
I was working on the chamberlin sounds with much patience.
I was there when David Bowie 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 Lakeside to the disco kids.
I played it at Cafe Wha.
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 Jawbox. All the underground hits.
All Throbbing Gristle tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Cal Tjader record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal crunk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a spring reverb and a synthesizer and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Negative Approach record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a sitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a theremin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Gregory Isaacs,
The Doobie Brothers,
World's Most,
Sandy B,
Idris Muhammad,
Soul II Soul,
Soft Machine,
The Stooges,
Jimmy McGriff,
Mr. Review,
Harpers Bizarre,
Erasure,
The Modern Lovers,
Loose Ends,
Can,
Matthew Bourne,
Maleditus Sound,
The Pop Group,
Freddie Wadling,
Terrestrial Tones,
The Selecter,
Silicon Teens,
Porter Ricks,
Bobbi Humphrey,
In Retrospect,
The New Christs,
Outsiders,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
The Misunderstood,
Lalo Schifrin,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
The Fire Engines,
MC5,
Saccharine Trust,
Kenny Larkin,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
Supertramp,
Tim Buckley,
ABBA,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
New York Dolls,
Dorothy Ashby,
Mad Mike,
It's A Beautiful Day,
Moebius,
Minutemen,
Liliput,
Kas Product,
Spandau Ballet,
Fad Gadget,
The Invisible,
Television Personalities,
Anakelly,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
The Motions,
Brand Nubian,
The Gories,
Agitation Free,
Rakim,
Unrelated Segments,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Thinking Fellers Union Local 282,
LL Cool J, LL Cool J, LL Cool J, LL Cool J.
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.