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 Canada and from Salvador.
But I was there.
I was there in 1976.
I was there at the first Buzzcocks show in Bolton.
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 1962 to 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Portland and London.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Jakarta 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 Nile Rodgers 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 Flash Fearless to the techno 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 Minnie Riperton. All the underground hits.
All The Velvet Underground tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Little Man 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 '60s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a theremin and a guitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Funky Four + One record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a theremin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a spring reverb.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Roxy Music,
Sound Behaviour,
Eric Copeland,
Derrick May,
The Monochrome Set,
Intrusion,
Nirvana,
The Angels of Light,
Bootsy's Rubber Band,
Johnny Clarke,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
Be Bop Deluxe,
Echospace,
Cymande,
Barry Ungar,
Jesper Dahlback,
Joy Division,
The Last Poets,
The Zeros,
Brick,
Visage,
The Seeds,
Pole,
Whodini,
Kenny Larkin,
Aswad,
Scion,
The Dave Clark Five,
Piero Umiliani,
Grey Daturas,
Graham Central Station,
Liaisons Dangereuses,
Ten City,
Swans,
Gastr Del Sol,
PIL,
Quantec,
Deepchord,
R.M.O.,
The Sisters of Mercy,
Easy Going,
David Axelrod,
Fela Kuti,
Country Teasers,
Slave,
The Victims,
Grandmaster Flash,
Panda Bear,
The Shadows of Knight,
The Golliwogs,
Skaos,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Bad Manners,
Kool Moe Dee,
Connie Case,
Flamin' Groovies,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
Archie Shepp,
Althea and Donna,
The Moody Blues,
Idris Muhammad,
Rod Modell, Rod Modell, Rod Modell, Rod Modell.
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.