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 Bhutan and from London.
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 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Lille and Mumbai.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Jakarta 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 1973 at the first Television practice in a loft in New York.
I was working on the 808 sounds with much patience.
I was there when Robert Palmer 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 Liliput to the rap 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 Gastr Del Sol. All the underground hits.
All Cecil Taylor tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Big Daddy Kane record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal funk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a marimba and a 808 and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Cybotron record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought an arpeggiator.
I hear that you and your band have sold your arpeggiator and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Peter & Gordon,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Albert Ayler,
Neu!,
Public Image Ltd.,
Suburban Knight,
Tropical Tobacco,
Bobby Hutcherson,
The Dead C,
Adolescents,
Maleditus Sound,
Glambeats Corp.,
Half Japanese,
Procol Harum,
Marcia Griffiths,
Terry Callier,
Pet Shop Boys,
The Knickerbockers,
the Sonics,
Eric Dolphy,
Funky Four + One,
Echo & the Bunnymen,
It's A Beautiful Day,
Sun Ra,
The Moody Blues,
Prince Buster,
Make Up,
Tim Buckley,
L. Decosne,
The Shadows of Knight,
48th St. Collective,
Lee Hazlewood,
The Techniques,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Rosa Yemen,
Black Sheep,
China Crisis,
Matthew Bourne,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
The Mojo Men,
Sällskapet,
Black Moon,
Darondo,
Beasts of Bourbon,
Fort Wilson Riot,
Marshall Jefferson,
Anthony Braxton,
Vainqueur,
The Fuzztones,
John Cale,
Aural Exciters,
Graham Central Station,
The Fall,
Delta 5,
Soul II Soul,
Ornette Coleman,
Desert Stars,
Avey Tare,
The Fire Engines,
David Axelrod,
MC5,
The Martian, The Martian, The Martian, The Martian.
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.