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 Japan and from Manchester.
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 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Bremen and Madrid.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Manchester 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 1987 at the first Nirvana practice in a loft in Seattle.
I was working on the snare 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 Jerry Gold Smith to the rap 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 Danielle Patucci. All the underground hits.
All Drexciya tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal crunk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a harpsichord and a spring reverb and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Archie Shepp record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Lalann,
Girls At Our Best!,
Alison Limerick,
Soulsonic Force,
Aloha Tigers,
Blossom Toes,
the Swans,
Jawbox,
The Pretty Things,
Rekid,
Zapp,
Jandek,
R.M.O.,
Jeff Lynne,
DJ Sneak,
Cameo,
The Mighty Diamonds,
Oblivians,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Curtis Mayfield,
The Detroit Cobras,
Main Source,
Gichy Dan,
Glenn Branca,
Gastr Del Sol,
Stereo Dub,
June of 44,
Panda Bear,
Das Ding,
Danielle Patucci,
The Red Krayola,
Sad Lovers and Giants,
L. Decosne,
Bad Manners,
Don Cherry,
Bobbi Humphrey,
Avey Tare,
Pagans,
Soft Cell,
Siglo XX,
ABBA,
Delon & Dalcan,
The Beau Brummels,
Bill Wells,
K-Klass,
The Associates,
Subhumans,
Underground Resistance,
Judy Mowatt,
Ten City,
Henry Cow,
X-102,
Excepter,
Funkadelic,
LL Cool J,
Cabaret Voltaire,
The Misunderstood,
Faraquet,
The Blackbyrds,
Cybotron,
Moby Grape,
The Gladiators,
Bluetip, Bluetip, Bluetip, Bluetip.
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.