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 Singapore and from Stockholm.
But I was there.
I was there in 1971.
I was there at the first Selda show in Istanbul.
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 1968 to 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Accra and Stockholm.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Spokane 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 808 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 Rahsaan Roland Kirk to the punk kids.
I played it at the Hacienda.
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 A Certain Ratio. All the underground hits.
All Monolake tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Fifty Foot Hose 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 '60s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a synthesizer and a mellotron and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Aural Exciters record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a mellotron.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a spring reverb.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Eric B and Rakim,
Urselle,
Stockholm Monsters,
Amazonics,
The Doobie Brothers,
Mission of Burma,
Junior Murvin,
Eli Mardock,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
Stereo Dub,
Bill Wells,
Glenn Branca,
New Order,
Reagan Youth,
The Last Poets,
Oblivians,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
F. McDonald,
T.S.O.L.,
Joe Smooth,
Tres Demented,
Silicon Teens,
Black Sheep,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Cybotron,
Bang on a Can All-Stars,
The Tremeloes,
Absolute Body Control,
Eric Dolphy,
Black Bananas,
Pharoah Sanders,
Kayak,
Depeche Mode,
X-102,
Grey Daturas,
Quadrant,
D'Angelo,
Roxy Music,
Lebanon Hanover,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
Minutemen,
Fatback Band,
B.T. Express,
Kevin Saunderson,
Metal Thangz,
Alphaville,
Pole,
Fort Wilson Riot,
Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft,
Max Romeo,
The Monks,
Intrusion,
Lou Reed,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Flamin' Groovies,
The Invisible,
Nico,
Hot Snakes,
It's A Beautiful Day,
The Alarm Clocks,
Warren Ellis,
Jesper Dahlbäck, Jesper Dahlbäck, Jesper Dahlbäck, Jesper Dahlbäck.
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.