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 Solomon Islands and from Edmonton.
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 1964 to 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Winnipeg and Mexico City.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Bologna 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 guitar sounds with much patience.
I was there when Holger Czukay 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 Lalann to the techno kids.
I played it at the Astoria.
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 Mission of Burma. All the underground hits.
All Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every June Days 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 '60s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a theremin and a clarinet and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Brass Construction record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought an oboe.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Lalann,
Negative Approach,
Hashim,
Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson,
Liliput,
Agitation Free,
Mars,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
The Leaves,
Scrapy,
Unrelated Segments,
Malaria!,
The Gories,
Harmonia,
Motorama,
Rosa Yemen,
Hot Snakes,
CMW,
Stereo Dub,
Section 25,
The Residents,
Scientists,
Khruangbin,
The Smiths,
David Bowie,
Bobby Sherman,
The Buckinghams,
This Heat,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
Procol Harum,
The Cramps,
Hasil Adkins,
Charles Mingus,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
The Gun Club,
Bauhaus,
Niagra,
Lungfish,
Josef K,
LL Cool J,
PIL,
Maleditus Sound,
Junior Murvin,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
It's A Beautiful Day,
Icehouse,
Qualms,
Gil Scott Heron,
ABC,
Rakim,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
Schoolly D,
the Swans,
New York Dolls,
The Human League,
Massinfluence,
La Düsseldorf,
Morten Harket,
Bobby Hutcherson,
The Star Department,
Minny Pops, Minny Pops, Minny Pops, Minny Pops.
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.