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 Yemen and from Mumbai.
But I was there.
I was there in 1971.
I was there at the first Big Star show in Memphis.
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 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Copenhagen and Woodstock.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Mumbai 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 1976 at the first Chic practice in a loft in New York.
I was working on the mellotron sounds with much patience.
I was there when Lou Reed 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 JFA to the disco 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 Kerrie Biddell. All the underground hits.
All Beasts of Bourbon tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Crime record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal techno hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a guitar and a rhodes and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Pylon record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a güiro.
I hear that you and your band have sold your güiro 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?
Aural Exciters,
Letta Mbulu,
Fat Boys,
Nas,
Technova,
Glenn Branca,
Young Marble Giants,
The Durutti Column,
Outsiders,
One Last Wish,
The Red Krayola,
Ossler,
Delta 5,
The Trojans,
Marshall Jefferson,
Selector Dub Narcotic,
The Evens,
Underground Resistance,
Aaron Thompson,
Zapp,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
La Düsseldorf,
Kerri Chandler,
Accadde A,
the Germs,
Max Romeo,
Suburban Knight,
Electric Prunes,
Oneida,
The Mighty Diamonds,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
Procol Harum,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Scan 7,
Yellowson,
The Busters,
Amazonics,
MDC,
E-Dancer,
Byron Stingily,
The Modern Lovers,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Public Enemy,
Laurel Aitken,
Supertramp,
Motorama,
Model 500,
Sister Nancy,
The Knickerbockers,
Clear Light,
The Skatalites,
Henry Cow,
Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx,
Aswad,
ABBA,
Ultra Naté,
Main Source,
Jerry's Kids,
The Blues Magoos,
Infiniti,
Eric Dolphy, Eric Dolphy, Eric Dolphy, Eric Dolphy.
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.