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 Sierra Leone and from Jakarta.
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 1962 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Hong Kong and Woodstock.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Lyon 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 synthesizer 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 Hasil Adkins to the grime 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 Gang of Four. All the underground hits.
All Pharoah Sanders tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Rotary Connection record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grime 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 an organ and a linndrum and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Jesper Dahlback record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a 808.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 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?
Lalo Schifrin,
Todd Rundgren,
Richard Hell and the Voidoids,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
Gerry Rafferty,
Ponytail,
Todd Terry,
T.S.O.L.,
Camberwell Now,
Soft Machine,
DJ Style,
Little Man,
The Fire Engines,
Alphaville,
La Düsseldorf,
Technova,
Essential Logic,
The Monochrome Set,
Stereo Dub,
John Lydon,
June of 44,
Gregory Isaacs,
Delon & Dalcan,
The Velvet Underground,
The Beau Brummels,
Oppenheimer Analysis,
Joensuu 1685,
Eddi Front,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
Eve St. Jones,
Swell Maps,
Cluster,
Kas Product,
Public Image Ltd.,
John Foxx,
The Mighty Diamonds,
Reagan Youth,
Negative Approach,
The Blackbyrds,
Pulsallama,
The Gories,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Bauhaus,
Fad Gadget,
In Retrospect,
Avey Tare,
Roger Hodgson,
Dorothy Ashby,
Eric B and Rakim,
Niagra,
Sparks,
Mission of Burma,
Moby Grape,
Babytalk,
The Red Krayola,
Harmonia,
the Slits,
The Searchers,
Black Bananas,
Smog,
Warren Ellis, Warren Ellis, Warren Ellis, Warren Ellis.
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.