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 Bahamas and from Seoul.
But I was there.
I was there in 1984.
I was there at the first Arcadia show in London.
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 1966 to 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Milan and Accra.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Paris 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 marimba 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 Scan 7 to the jazz kids.
I played it at the Spitz.
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 Excepter. All the underground hits.
All Underground Resistance tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Index record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grunge 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 spring reverb and an organ and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Kevin Saunderson record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a chamberlin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought an oboe.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Erykah Badu,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
48th St. Collective,
Joe Smooth,
Crime,
David Bowie,
The Moleskins,
The Angels of Light,
Eyeless In Gaza,
Suicide,
Mary Jane Girls,
Kevin Saunderson,
The Cure,
Monolake,
Eric Copeland,
Groovy Waters,
Subhumans,
Pussy Galore,
Fat Boys,
Dave Gahan,
B.T. Express,
John Cale,
Bobby Hutcherson,
The Cosmic Jokers,
Icehouse,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
The Motions,
Ronnie Foster,
Avey Tare,
Beasts of Bourbon,
Fear,
The Electric Prunes,
Fort Wilson Riot,
Soulsonic Force,
Kango’s Stein Massive,
Excepter,
Echospace,
Guru Guru,
Grey Daturas,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Sam Rivers,
Crispian St. Peters,
Angels of Light & Akron/Family,
Nico,
Delta 5,
Television Personalities,
Von Mondo,
Electric Prunes,
Nas,
Marmalade,
Barclay James Harvest,
Eric Dolphy,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Wire,
Todd Rundgren,
The Slackers,
Kaleidoscope,
Rites of Spring,
T.S.O.L.,
FM Einheit,
Rhythm & Sound,
Althea and Donna, Althea and Donna, Althea and Donna, Althea and Donna.
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.