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 Algeria and from Lagos.
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 1961 to 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Jakarta and Jakarta.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Stockholm 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 1968 at the first Bowie practice in a loft in Bromley.
I was working on the sitar sounds with much patience.
I was there when Nile Rodgers 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 Khruangbin to the jazz kids.
I played it at the Hacienda.
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 Scrapy. All the underground hits.
All Quando Quango tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every DJ Sneak 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 '80s.
I hear you're buying a güiro and a chamberlin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Shoche record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your arpeggiator and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought an arpeggiator.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Laurel Aitken,
Interpol,
Joensuu 1685,
Angels of Light & Akron/Family,
Scion,
Royal Trux,
The Gap Band,
Todd Terry,
Hot Snakes,
Skarface,
F. McDonald,
Davy DMX,
Jandek,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
Rod Modell,
Alice Coltrane,
Reuben Wilson,
The Grass Roots,
The Skatalites,
It's A Beautiful Day,
Cluster,
The Stooges,
The Sound,
Fat Boys,
Average White Band,
The Motions,
Kayak,
Metal Thangz,
Lalo Schifrin,
Au Pairs,
Youth Brigade,
Archie Shepp,
Cymande,
The Pop Group,
A Certain Ratio,
Eurythmics,
Chris & Cosey,
Scrapy,
Silicon Teens,
Thinking Fellers Union Local 282,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
MDC,
Goldenarms,
Brothers Johnson,
The Index,
Roxy Music,
Alphaville,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
Circle Jerks,
Ralphi Rosario,
Marvin Gaye,
The Fuzztones,
Danielle Patucci,
Main Source,
Ohio Players,
Bang on a Can All-Stars,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
John Cale,
ABC,
Panda Bear, Panda Bear, Panda Bear, Panda Bear.
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.