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 Netherlands and from Philadelphia.
But I was there.
I was there in 1968.
I was there at the first Bowie show in Bromley.
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 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Woodstock and Houston.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Madrid 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 1967 at the first Rodriguez practice in a loft in Detroit.
I was working on the 808 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 Jesper Dahlback to the funk 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 Niagra. All the underground hits.
All Vladislav Delay tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Nas record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rap hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a snare and a clarinet and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Jawbox record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a mellotron.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Cluster,
The Smiths,
Eric Dolphy,
Strawberry Alarm Clock,
Black Pus,
Morten Harket,
The Five Americans,
Sixth Finger,
Subhumans,
Youth Brigade,
Pere Ubu,
Gang Gang Dance,
The Misunderstood,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Warsaw,
DNA,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
Sound Behaviour,
Pagans,
Davy DMX,
Bill Near,
Crash Course in Science,
Hot Snakes,
Todd Terry,
Faust,
The Cure,
Sonny Sharrock,
Minny Pops,
Aural Exciters,
In Retrospect,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
the Association,
Lalo Schifrin,
Aloha Tigers,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
Basic Channel,
Au Pairs,
Sun Ra,
Con Funk Shun,
Hashim,
Throbbing Gristle,
Be Bop Deluxe,
Negative Approach,
Louis and Bebe Barron,
The Shadows of Knight,
Pet Shop Boys,
The Smoke,
Janne Schatter,
The Seeds,
China Crisis,
Wally Richardson,
The Knickerbockers,
Khruangbin,
Q65,
Terrestrial Tones,
Barry Ungar,
Yellowson,
Peter & Gordon,
This Heat, This Heat, This Heat, This Heat.
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.