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 Mongolia and from Seoul.
But I was there.
I was there in 1979.
I was there at the first Second Layer show in South 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 1963 to 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Milan and Tokyo.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Portland 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 sitar sounds with much patience.
I was there when David Bowie 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 Flamin' Groovies to the techno kids.
I played it at the Astoria.
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 Alice Coltrane. All the underground hits.
All Visage tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Michelle Simonal 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 '80s.
I hear you're buying a snare and a guitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Joy Division record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a sitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a rhodes.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Larry & the Blue Notes,
Can,
Con Funk Shun,
Be Bop Deluxe,
Avey Tare,
Wally Richardson,
Pussy Galore,
Terrestrial Tones,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
Niagra,
The Gories,
Khruangbin,
Traffic Nightmare,
The Fire Engines,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
Groovy Waters,
Cheater Slicks,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
The Seeds,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
Average White Band,
Flash Fearless,
Bang On A Can,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
Dorothy Ashby,
Q65,
Hashim,
Magma,
Eurythmics,
Man Eating Sloth,
Skaos,
Marine Girls,
Shoche,
Tommy Roe,
The Cowsills,
The Names,
Angels of Light & Akron/Family,
Jerry Gold Smith,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Skarface,
OOIOO,
A Certain Ratio,
Moby Grape,
Boogie Down Productions,
Kool Moe Dee,
Dual Sessions,
Byron Stingily,
Crime,
Mantronix,
Andrew Hill,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
Fifty Foot Hose,
Interpol,
Deadbeat,
Eden Ahbez,
Radiopuhelimet,
Nas,
Absolute Body Control,
Barbara Tucker,
Slave,
Alphaville,
Television Personalities, Television Personalities, Television Personalities, Television Personalities.
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.