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 Belize and from Bremen.
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 1962 to 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Portland and Glasgow.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Paris 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 spring reverb 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 The Selecter to the rap kids.
I played it at the Spitz.
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 Minnie Riperton. All the underground hits.
All Adolescents tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Reuben Wilson 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 '70s.
I hear you're buying a chamberlin and an arpeggiator and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Outsiders record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a harpsichord.
I hear that you and your band have sold your harpsichord and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Jandek,
Electric Light Orchestra,
Bootsy's Rubber Band,
Negative Approach,
Supertramp,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
Leonard Cohen,
Unrelated Segments,
Guru Guru,
Roger Hodgson,
10cc,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
JFA,
Crime,
Fad Gadget,
The Birthday Party,
Roxette,
the Fania All-Stars,
K-Klass,
The Associates,
The Litter,
8 Eyed Spy,
Nation of Ulysses,
The Gap Band,
Television,
Isaac Hayes,
Metal Thangz,
The Sound,
Gichy Dan,
Ituana,
Tubeway Army,
The Martian,
Lucky Dragons,
Janne Schatter,
Moss Icon,
Thee Headcoats,
Young Marble Giants,
Alison Limerick,
Mandrill,
La Düsseldorf,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Kango’s Stein Massive,
Derrick May,
The Zeros,
Rufus Thomas,
cv313,
Monks,
Franke,
Gregory Isaacs,
Urselle,
Steve Hackett,
Cal Tjader,
Bush Tetras,
The Alarm Clocks,
Dark Day,
Stockholm Monsters,
New Order,
Terrestrial Tones,
L. Decosne,
Echospace,
James Chance & The Contortions,
Anakelly, Anakelly, Anakelly, Anakelly.
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.