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 Chad and from Beijing.
But I was there.
I was there in 1967.
I was there at the first Rodriguez show in Detroit.
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 1960 to 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Beijing and Madrid.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Columbus 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 1971 at the first Big Star practice in a loft in Memphis.
I was working on the snare sounds with much patience.
I was there when Holger Czukay 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 Frankie Knuckles to the rock kids.
I played it at the Astoria.
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 Eyeless In Gaza. All the underground hits.
All Marmalade tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Wire record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grime hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a mellotron and a linndrum and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Unrelated Segments record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your arpeggiator and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought an arpeggiator.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Ornette Coleman,
Joe Smooth,
Be Bop Deluxe,
Qualms,
Cybotron,
Joy Division,
Ituana,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Peter and Kerry,
Lalann,
Isaac Hayes,
Mission of Burma,
Soul Sonic Force,
Kayak,
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark,
Swans,
LL Cool J,
China Crisis,
The Selecter,
Skarface,
Angels of Light & Akron/Family,
Fluxion,
Bad Manners,
The Evens,
Roy Ayers Ubiquity,
Charles Mingus,
The Victims,
Rapeman,
Dennis Brown,
Minny Pops,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
Smog,
Agitation Free,
Negative Approach,
The Real Kids,
Bill Near,
The Jesus and Mary Chain,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
The Grass Roots,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
Glambeats Corp.,
Ludus,
Kurtis Blow,
Mary Jane Girls,
London Community Gospel Choir,
Gang Green,
Flipper,
X-102,
Maurizio,
Pet Shop Boys,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
The Knickerbockers,
Index,
Eve St. Jones,
Ronan,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Lalo Schifrin,
Kings Of Tomorrow,
Teenage Jesus and the Jerks,
the Association,
The Walker Brothers,
Beasts of Bourbon,
The Seeds, The Seeds, The Seeds, The Seeds.
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.