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 Iraq and from Hong Kong.
But I was there.
I was there in 1984.
I was there at the first Arcadia show in London.
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 1969 to 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Winnipeg and Stockholm.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Beijing 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 theremin sounds with much patience.
I was there when Robert Palmer 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 Notorious Big And Bone Thugs to the funk kids.
I played it at the 40 Watt.
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 Excepter. All the underground hits.
All Chris & Cosey tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Boredoms 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 '90s.
I hear you're buying a linndrum and a mellotron and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Technova 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?
Visage,
Eric Copeland,
Jacques Brel,
Monolake,
Zapp,
Minny Pops,
Art Ensemble Of Chicago,
Erykah Badu,
The Saints,
Terry Callier,
Sad Lovers and Giants,
The Blackbyrds,
Lucky Dragons,
Bootsy Collins,
Joensuu 1685,
The Victims,
Depeche Mode,
Matthew Halsall,
Scratch Acid,
Hashim,
Ronnie Foster,
Barry Ungar,
Electric Prunes,
Michelle Simonal,
The Techniques,
Absolute Body Control,
Jeff Mills,
Japan,
Isaac Hayes,
Glambeats Corp.,
R.M.O.,
John Holt,
The Gun Club,
Fatback Band,
Arcadia,
Intrusion,
Main Source,
Lebanon Hanover,
Sonic Youth,
Soulsonic Force,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
Surgeon,
Tomorrow,
Anakelly,
Sparks,
Franke,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Moss Icon,
Mission of Burma,
China Crisis,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
Slave,
Roxette,
Nils Olav,
Jerry's Kids,
Amon Düül II,
Warren Ellis,
Thinking Fellers Union Local 282,
MC5,
Camberwell Now,
Maurizio,
Rosa Yemen,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell, N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell, N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell, N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell.
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.