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 Nepal and from Johannesburg.
But I was there.
I was there in 1987.
I was there at the first Nirvana show in Seattle.
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 1963 to 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Philadelphia and Manila.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Delhi 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 Michael McDonald 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 Section 25 to the techno kids.
I played it at the Crocodile.
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 Sight & Sound. All the underground hits.
All Drexciya tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Ituana record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal jazz hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a marimba and a linndrum and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Sound Behaviour record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a clarinet.
I hear that you and your band have sold your clarinet and bought an oboe.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Quadrant,
Pere Ubu,
Kevin Saunderson,
Hardrive,
Zapp,
Agitation Free,
Ten City,
Deepchord,
Sonny Sharrock,
Soulsonic Force,
Shuggie Otis,
Derrick Morgan,
Maurizio,
Lebanon Hanover,
Audionom,
Alton Ellis,
Boogie Down Productions,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
D'Angelo,
Slick Rick,
Scientists,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
La Düsseldorf,
Das Ding,
Wings,
Animal Collective,
DJ Style,
Gian Franco Pienzio,
Lee Hazlewood,
Cecil Taylor,
Black Moon,
Warren Ellis,
Joyce Sims,
Yaz,
The Neon Judgement,
Leonard Cohen,
Half Japanese,
Quando Quango,
Sad Lovers and Giants,
Todd Rundgren,
Lalo Schifrin,
Tres Demented,
Crispy Ambulance,
Angels of Light & Akron/Family,
The Monochrome Set,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
Buzzcocks,
Crime,
Glenn Branca,
Boz Scaggs,
Motorama,
Procol Harum,
The Fortunes,
PIL,
Donald Byrd,
The Fuzztones,
Mr. Review,
Minny Pops,
Jacques Brel,
Smog,
Isaac Hayes,
Grandmaster Flash, Grandmaster Flash, Grandmaster Flash, Grandmaster Flash.
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.