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 Guinea and from Accra.
But I was there.
I was there in 1979.
I was there at the first Josef K show in Edinburgh.
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 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Columbus and Spokane.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school London 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 Tom Verlaine 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 Franke to the techno kids.
I played it at the Spitz.
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 Johnny Osbourne. All the underground hits.
All Bauhaus tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Jeru the Damaja 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 guitar and a marimba and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Tres Demented record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a snare.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought a 808.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Jerry's Kids,
Soul Sonic Force,
Wasted Youth,
The Sound,
OOIOO,
The Walker Brothers,
Gastr Del Sol,
Lalann,
Marcia Griffiths,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
Jandek,
The Divine Comedy,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
Rotary Connection,
Scion,
Eric Dolphy,
Quadrant,
Deadbeat,
The Sisters of Mercy,
Fear,
Oneida,
Royal Trux,
Jawbox,
Massinfluence,
Black Flag,
The Evens,
Pole,
MDC,
The Mummies,
Outsiders,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
David McCallum,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Boogie Down Productions,
Gang of Four,
Peter & Gordon,
Guru Guru,
The Skatalites,
Kerri Chandler,
Flamin' Groovies,
H. Thieme,
Jacques Brel,
Joe Finger,
Connie Case,
Swell Maps,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Sight & Sound,
Glambeats Corp.,
Eric Copeland,
Man Parrish,
This Heat,
Prince Buster,
Eric B and Rakim,
Scott Walker,
Supertramp,
Brothers Johnson,
Sugar Minott,
The Beau Brummels,
Cymande,
Ultra Naté,
Selector Dub Narcotic,
Soulsonic Force,
Quando Quango, Quando Quango, Quando Quango, Quando Quango.
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.