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 Vanuatu and from Delhi.
But I was there.
I was there in 1976.
I was there at the first Feelies show in Haledon.
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 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Johannesburg and Manchester.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Delhi 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 theremin sounds with much patience.
I was there when Robert Palmer 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 The Zeros to the techno 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 Symarip. All the underground hits.
All Grauzone tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Soulsonic Force record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal electroclash 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 chamberlin and a theremin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Sonny Sharrock record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your arpeggiator and bought a rhodes.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought an arpeggiator.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Howard Jones,
Liliput,
Scion,
The J.B.'s,
Peter and Kerry,
Mars,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Von Mondo,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
The New Christs,
Boogie Down Productions,
Lebanon Hanover,
Delta 5,
A Certain Ratio,
The Evens,
Ralphi Rosario,
Patti Smith,
8 Eyed Spy,
The Saints,
Arcadia,
John Foxx,
D'Angelo,
Scientists,
Infiniti,
The Cure,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Public Image Ltd.,
Nils Olav,
Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx,
Reuben Wilson,
L. Decosne,
Royal Trux,
CMW,
Masters at Work,
Kurtis Blow,
Black Pus,
Crispy Ambulance,
Popol Vuh,
Lightning Bolt,
The Happenings,
Jeff Mills,
The Trojans,
Lower 48,
Y Pants,
Sly & The Family Stone,
X-102,
Make Up,
Eurythmics,
Michelle Simonal,
Nik Kershaw,
Derrick May,
Das Ding,
Second Layer,
Flamin' Groovies,
Cecil Taylor,
48th St. Collective,
Sam Rivers,
Mandrill,
The Five Americans,
Maurizio,
The Standells,
Rotary Connection,
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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.