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 Mauritania and from Calgary.
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 1963 to 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Lagos and Mexico City.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Taipei 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 spring reverb 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 Barclay James Harvest to the electroclash 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 Skaos. All the underground hits.
All Bobby Womack tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every K-Klass record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal crunk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a mellotron and a 808 and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Y Pants record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a chamberlin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
EPMD,
Rekid,
Tommy Roe,
Outsiders,
Delon & Dalcan,
Supertramp,
Talk Talk,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Michelle Simonal,
The Young Rascals,
Quadrant,
Eric Copeland,
Nation of Ulysses,
Bob Dylan,
Janne Schatter,
Schoolly D,
Technova,
Tubeway Army,
Dave Gahan,
The Gap Band,
Los Fastidios,
Stetsasonic,
New Order,
Scott Walker,
Boz Scaggs,
June of 44,
Metal Thangz,
Glenn Branca,
Soulsonic Force,
Wolf Eyes,
Monks,
Drive Like Jehu,
Joy Division,
Howard Jones,
Rites of Spring,
The Names,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Nirvana,
kango's stein massive,
Moebius,
Carl Craig,
The Detroit Cobras,
Aaron Thompson,
Byron Stingily,
Groovy Waters,
Average White Band,
World's Most,
The Invisible,
Electric Light Orchestra,
Anthony Braxton,
Faust,
The Golliwogs,
Cheater Slicks,
Jesper Dahlback,
Jimmy McGriff,
Peter and Kerry,
The Motions,
Second Layer,
Inner City,
Masters at Work,
Bobbi Humphrey,
Leonard Cohen,
Mr. Review,
James Chance & The Contortions, James Chance & The Contortions, James Chance & The Contortions, James Chance & The Contortions.
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.