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 Botswana and from Bologna.
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 1964 to 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Copenhagen and Cairo.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Woodstock 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 1975 at the first Ubu practice in a loft in Cleveland.
I was working on the güiro sounds with much patience.
I was there when Donald Fagen 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 Nas to the grime kids.
I played it at Trash.
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 Hashim. All the underground hits.
All Strawberry Alarm Clock tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Soft Cell record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal jazz 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 a snare and a guitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a New Order record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a linndrum.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum 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,
One Last Wish,
Sunsets and Hearts,
Lebanon Hanover,
Bill Near,
10cc,
Scion,
Rod Modell,
Leonard Cohen,
Frankie Knuckles,
Nas,
Agitation Free,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Lungfish,
CMW,
Eyeless In Gaza,
Rakim,
The Electric Prunes,
DNA,
The Mojo Men,
Derrick Morgan,
Jimmy McGriff,
Sister Nancy,
Interpol,
Faraquet,
Lightning Bolt,
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark,
Mark Hollis,
Gian Franco Pienzio,
Moebius,
Duran Duran,
The Names,
Eric Copeland,
Guru Guru,
Minny Pops,
Cymande,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
Alison Limerick,
Donald Byrd,
Mad Mike,
Harpers Bizarre,
Iggy Pop,
Minnie Riperton,
Niagra,
Joe Smooth,
Marc Romboy vs. Booka Shade,
Jawbox,
Little Man,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Gerry Rafferty,
The Barracudas,
Crash Course in Science,
Avey Tare,
Arab on Radar,
Alice Coltrane,
Accadde A,
T. Rex,
Schoolly D,
Sparks,
Teenage Jesus and the Jerks,
Tom Boy,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk, Rahsaan Roland Kirk, Rahsaan Roland Kirk, Rahsaan Roland Kirk.
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.