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 Malaysia and from Copenhagen.
But I was there.
I was there in 1977.
I was there at the first Mistral show in Amsterdam.
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 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Tehran and Lille.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Calgary 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 marimba sounds with much patience.
I was there when Lou Reed 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 Boz Scaggs to the electroclash 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 EPMD. All the underground hits.
All Iggy Pop tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every the Normal 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 '70s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a theremin and a sitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Dave Gahan record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a mellotron.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Groovy Waters,
the Bar-Kays,
The Residents,
Sam Rivers,
Cymande,
Neil Young,
The Seeds,
Bob Dylan,
Delta 5,
Buzzcocks,
Lalann,
the Germs,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
Monks,
Television,
Sight & Sound,
Glambeats Corp.,
The Black Dice,
Quando Quango,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
Bronski Beat,
Slave,
Eyeless In Gaza,
The Detroit Cobras,
Electric Light Orchestra,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Royal Trux,
Shoche,
DJ Sneak,
June of 44,
The Peanut Butter Conspiracy,
Newcleus,
The Martian,
It's A Beautiful Day,
Red Lorry Yellow Lorry,
The Blackbyrds,
The Gories,
Crispian St. Peters,
Scion,
Oneida,
Eli Mardock,
Scott Walker,
The Wake,
Swell Maps,
Joey Negro,
Matthew Halsall,
Magazine,
Eden Ahbez,
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark,
Sällskapet,
Soul II Soul,
Ken Boothe,
Sister Nancy,
Jimmy McGriff,
Mantronix,
Dorothy Ashby,
CMW,
Pet Shop Boys,
Liliput,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
John Holt,
Warsaw, Warsaw, Warsaw, Warsaw.
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.