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 Samoa and from Hong Kong.
But I was there.
I was there in 1979.
I was there at the first Josef K show in Edinburgh.
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 1961 to 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Winnipeg and Woodstock.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Toronto 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 mellotron 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 The Fall to the crunk kids.
I played it at the Troubador.
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 Gian Franco Pienzio. All the underground hits.
All Bronski Beat tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Crispian St. Peters 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 '70s.
I hear you're buying an organ and a rhodes and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a linndrum.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a chamberlin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band,
Pole,
Moby Grape,
The Fall,
Black Bananas,
Bobby Womack,
Suburban Knight,
Jerry's Kids,
The Standells,
Junior Murvin,
Sight & Sound,
Toni Rubio,
Radio Birdman,
Zapp,
Nirvana,
The Fuzztones,
Lebanon Hanover,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
The Fire Engines,
Crime,
Infiniti,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
Mission of Burma,
Franke,
Grandmaster Flash,
Inner City,
Mandrill,
Grey Daturas,
Popol Vuh,
Roxy Music,
Barry Ungar,
Red Lorry Yellow Lorry,
Brothers Johnson,
Khruangbin,
Fluxion,
Audionom,
A Flock of Seagulls,
Reuben Wilson,
T.S.O.L.,
Dorothy Ashby,
Average White Band,
Accadde A,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Ken Boothe,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
The Sisters of Mercy,
Faust,
Soft Machine,
LL Cool J,
Black Flag,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
Charles Mingus,
KRS-One,
Fad Gadget,
MDC,
Bobby Sherman,
Dual Sessions,
Arab on Radar,
Dawn Penn,
Clear Light,
OOIOO,
The United States of America, The United States of America, The United States of America, The United States of America.
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.