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 Congo and from Portland.
But I was there.
I was there in 1968.
I was there at the first Bowie show in Bromley.
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 1962 to 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Copenhagen and Johannesburg.
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 harpsichord 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 Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel to the punk kids.
I played it at the Crocodile.
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 Second Layer. All the underground hits.
All Avey Tare tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Heavy D & The Boyz 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 '70s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a harpsichord and a spring reverb and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a the Bar-Kays record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your arpeggiator and bought a linndrum.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought an arpeggiator.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Grass Roots,
UT,
Eurythmics,
Eddi Front,
John Foxx,
Minor Threat,
Cybotron,
Fad Gadget,
Motorama,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
Rites of Spring,
The New Christs,
World's Most,
The Smoke,
Echospace,
MDC,
Dual Sessions,
Lyres,
The Gun Club,
Aloha Tigers,
Jeff Mills,
Talk Talk,
Electric Prunes,
Art Ensemble Of Chicago,
Flipper,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Barbara Tucker,
Boogie Down Productions,
Panda Bear,
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark,
Massinfluence,
Toni Rubio,
Blossom Toes,
Inner City,
Maurizio,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
John Coltrane,
Mary Jane Girls,
Fela Kuti,
LL Cool J,
Andrew Hill,
Derrick Morgan,
New Age Steppers,
Godley & Creme,
Camberwell Now,
Monks,
The Angels of Light,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Parry Music,
Moby Grape,
Radio Birdman,
Theoretical Girls,
The Black Dice,
Slick Rick,
The Alarm Clocks,
Byron Stingily,
Ultravox,
Leonard Cohen,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
Brand Nubian,
Eric Copeland, Eric Copeland, Eric Copeland, Eric Copeland.
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.