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 Bulgaria and from Sao Paulo.
But I was there.
I was there in 1971.
I was there at the first Neu! show in Düsseldorf.
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 Seoul and Lille.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Lagos 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 chamberlin 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 Soulsonic Force to the jazz kids.
I played it at Cafe Wha.
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 Scratch Acid. All the underground hits.
All Lee Hazlewood tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Ralphi Rosario record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rap hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '70s.
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 Young Marble Giants record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx,
London Community Gospel Choir,
Bizarre Inc.,
ABBA,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
Pet Shop Boys,
The Modern Lovers,
Bobby Sherman,
Franke,
Accadde A,
kango's stein massive,
Frankie Knuckles,
Japan,
Grey Daturas,
Funkadelic,
Patti Smith,
Drive Like Jehu,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
The Gladiators,
The Gap Band,
Au Pairs,
Danielle Patucci,
Mission of Burma,
Juan Atkins,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
The Cosmic Jokers,
The Cowsills,
Negative Approach,
Amon Düül,
Tommy Roe,
Deakin,
The Fall,
Erykah Badu,
Black Pus,
The Evens,
Trumans Water,
The Five Americans,
Eric Dolphy,
Max Romeo,
R.M.O.,
Barclay James Harvest,
Quantec,
Los Fastidios,
Groovy Waters,
Dawn Penn,
James Chance & The Contortions,
PIL,
Technova,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
Skaos,
Josef K,
Banda Bassotti,
Brick,
Qualms,
Electric Light Orchestra,
The Stooges,
Heaven 17,
Underground Resistance,
Gang Green,
Livin' Joy,
cv313,
Janne Schatter, Janne Schatter, Janne Schatter, Janne Schatter.
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.