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 Belgium and from Philadelphia.
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 1968 to 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Manila and Houston.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Mexico City 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 2001 at the first Tiga practice in a loft in Montreal.
I was working on the linndrum 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 Idris Muhammad to the grunge kids.
I played it at the Roxy.
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 Bill Wells. All the underground hits.
All New Order tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Busters record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rock 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 mellotron and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Mantronix record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a sitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar 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?
Michelle Simonal,
A Certain Ratio,
Liaisons Dangereuses,
Harpers Bizarre,
The Sisters of Mercy,
Bill Wells,
Soft Machine,
Section 25,
Morten Harket,
Moebius,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
Jacques Brel,
Basic Channel,
Stetsasonic,
Goldenarms,
Infiniti,
The J.B.'s,
Graham Central Station,
Pere Ubu,
Magma,
Jeff Mills,
Radio Birdman,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
Banda Bassotti,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
The Selecter,
Lou Christie,
Massinfluence,
The Dirtbombs,
The Zeros,
Jeff Lynne,
Gabor Szabo,
Joensuu 1685,
AZ,
Nation of Ulysses,
Pet Shop Boys,
Eddi Front,
Oblivians,
Technova,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
Reuben Wilson,
The Slackers,
Selector Dub Narcotic,
Black Flag,
Hasil Adkins,
Silicon Teens,
Marcia Griffiths,
Black Sheep,
Absolute Body Control,
Gil Scott Heron,
Derrick May,
Laurel Aitken,
Traffic Nightmare,
X-101,
Agent Orange,
Eyeless In Gaza,
New Age Steppers,
Quadrant,
Gichy Dan,
Albert Ayler, Albert Ayler, Albert Ayler, Albert Ayler.
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.