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 Libya and from Jakarta.
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 1964 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Bologna and Madrid.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Seoul 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 1976 at the first Chic practice in a loft in New York.
I was working on the theremin sounds with much patience.
I was there when Captain Beefheart 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 World's Most 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 Cheater Slicks. All the underground hits.
All Joe Finger tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every OOIOO record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal disco hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a harpsichord and an oboe and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Newcleus record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought an organ.
I hear that you and your band have sold your organ and bought a 808.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Gabor Szabo,
Scan 7,
Au Pairs,
D'Angelo,
Fear,
The Velvet Underground,
Tommy Roe,
Todd Terry,
The Dirtbombs,
Larry & the Blue Notes,
Index,
Trumans Water,
The Durutti Column,
Panda Bear,
The Doobie Brothers,
A Certain Ratio,
Eli Mardock,
Lou Reed,
The Toasters,
Pierre Henry,
The Human League,
The Sound,
Marcia Griffiths,
Funky Four + One,
Marshall Jefferson,
Fatback Band,
Soft Machine,
Eurythmics,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
DJ Style,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Faraquet,
Cecil Taylor,
Simply Red,
Kerrie Biddell,
Scott Walker,
The Names,
Bill Near,
Jawbox,
Gang of Four,
T.S.O.L.,
Soul Sonic Force,
Lucky Dragons,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
T. Rex,
Gang Gang Dance,
Kango’s Stein Massive,
The Beau Brummels,
The Gap Band,
The Jesus and Mary Chain,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Althea and Donna,
LL Cool J,
Brand Nubian,
Organ,
Tears for Fears,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
Terrestrial Tones,
Gian Franco Pienzio,
Groovy Waters,
Duran Duran,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
Essential Logic, Essential Logic, Essential Logic, Essential Logic.
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.