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 Malta and from Madrid.
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 1968 to 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Houston and Toronto.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Bologna 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 1977 at the first Zapp practice in a loft in Hamilton.
I was working on the güiro 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 Television Personalities to the electroclash 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 Kayak. All the underground hits.
All Panda Bear tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every John Holt 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 '80s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a mellotron and a harpsichord and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Jesper Dahlback record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a mellotron.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Lou Reed & John Cale,
Andrew Hill,
Royal Trux,
Judy Mowatt,
Monolake,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
The Mighty Diamonds,
Cluster,
Thinking Fellers Union Local 282,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Jimmy McGriff,
Nico,
Rites of Spring,
The Cosmic Jokers,
Crime,
Barbara Tucker,
The Litter,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
Television,
Gang Starr,
the Slits,
Traffic Nightmare,
Lalann,
Roxette,
Camberwell Now,
David Axelrod,
Malaria!,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
Marc Almond,
Outsiders,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
Q and Not U,
the Germs,
Lucky Dragons,
Bobbi Humphrey,
Bob Dylan,
cv313,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Matthew Bourne,
Adolescents,
The Neon Judgement,
Donald Byrd,
Average White Band,
Siglo XX,
The Buckinghams,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
The Fuzztones,
Moss Icon,
Marvin Gaye,
Oneida,
Henry Cow,
Loose Ends,
These Immortal Souls,
the Bar-Kays,
Vainqueur,
Funkadelic,
Isaac Hayes,
X-Ray Spex,
Nick Fraelich,
Popol Vuh,
The Young Rascals,
The Alarm Clocks,
Dark Day, Dark Day, Dark Day, Dark Day.
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.