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 Kiribati and from Milan.
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 1965 to 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Portland and Woodstock.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Columbus 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 oboe sounds with much patience.
I was there when Captain Beefheart 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 Reagan Youth to the rap 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 The Slits. All the underground hits.
All Isaac Hayes tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Hashim record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal electroclash hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a synthesizer and a guitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Idris Muhammad record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a rhodes.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a linndrum.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Subhumans,
Oppenheimer Analysis,
Delon & Dalcan,
Sun City Girls,
Scott Walker,
Derrick May,
Maleditus Sound,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
Amon Düül II,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Eric Copeland,
Idris Muhammad,
Newcleus,
Loose Ends,
Sixth Finger,
The Offenders,
Marvin Gaye,
Make Up,
Pylon,
Sparks,
Mantronix,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
Jerry's Kids,
Talk Talk,
Popol Vuh,
Matthew Bourne,
Brothers Johnson,
Mary Jane Girls,
Black Sheep,
Surgeon,
DJ Sneak,
Angels of Light & Akron/Family,
The Slits,
Mad Mike,
Piero Umiliani,
Marine Girls,
Shuggie Otis,
Public Image Ltd.,
ABBA,
Traffic Nightmare,
Barbara Tucker,
Kevin Saunderson,
Guru Guru,
the Human League,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Freddie Wadling,
Black Bananas,
Electric Prunes,
Peter and Kerry,
Second Layer,
X-101,
Wally Richardson,
Anakelly,
Fela Kuti,
The Evens,
Pulsallama,
Panda Bear,
Jimmy McGriff,
Neu!,
The Zeros,
Quando Quango, Quando Quango, Quando Quango, Quando Quango.
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.