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 Haiti and from Paris.
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 1965 to 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Woodstock and Manila.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Woodstock 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 linndrum 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 Pantytec to the grime 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 Patti Smith. All the underground hits.
All The Mummies tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Cymande record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal dance 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 snare and a linndrum and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Bill Near record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a chamberlin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a 808.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson,
Sonny Sharrock,
Maurizio,
Funky Four + One,
Malaria!,
Pantytec,
Roger Hodgson,
Marcia Griffiths,
F. McDonald,
Smog,
The Misunderstood,
Dorothy Ashby,
Hashim,
Jandek,
Flipper,
Brick,
Warsaw,
Althea and Donna,
The Knickerbockers,
The Modern Lovers,
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band,
The Saints,
Scan 7,
Lungfish,
Essential Logic,
Echo & the Bunnymen,
Franke,
Reagan Youth,
Bobby Womack,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
Deakin,
Tom Boy,
Animal Collective,
OOIOO,
The Beau Brummels,
Saccharine Trust,
The Electric Prunes,
The Slackers,
A Flock of Seagulls,
Hot Snakes,
Matthew Bourne,
Sister Nancy,
Monolake,
ABC,
cv313,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
The Vogues,
Fugazi,
Wasted Youth,
Rekid,
Glambeats Corp.,
The Pop Group,
Ultra Naté,
Tropical Tobacco,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
London Community Gospel Choir,
Shuggie Otis,
The Motions,
Fela Kuti,
Blancmange,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
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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.