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 Palau and from Cairo.
But I was there.
I was there in 1979.
I was there at the first Second Layer show in South London.
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 1966 to 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Bologna and Mumbai.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Manila 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 rhodes sounds with much patience.
I was there when Tom Verlaine 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 Josef K to the rock kids.
I played it at the Troubador.
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 Eurythmics. All the underground hits.
All Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Excepter 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 '80s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a marimba and a harpsichord and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Cabaret Voltaire record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a 808.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a theremin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Pierre Henry,
The Mojo Men,
Eurythmics,
Essential Logic,
Curtis Mayfield,
Pantaleimon,
Chrome,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
Blossom Toes,
The Fortunes,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
The Stooges,
Ice-T,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
Swell Maps,
Audionom,
Whodini,
L. Decosne,
Marvin Gaye,
Alton Ellis,
Half Japanese,
Albert Ayler,
Richard Hell and the Voidoids,
X-Ray Spex,
Aaron Thompson,
Man Eating Sloth,
DJ Sneak,
Gichy Dan,
Excepter,
The Skatalites,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Hot Snakes,
Lower 48,
The Jesus and Mary Chain,
Fat Boys,
Eden Ahbez,
The Beau Brummels,
Amon Düül,
Sam Rivers,
Q65,
Slave,
Con Funk Shun,
Lalann,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
Aswad,
Nils Olav,
Harmonia,
Max Romeo,
Black Moon,
Derrick Morgan,
Livin' Joy,
The Pop Group,
R.M.O.,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Bobby Womack,
The Residents,
Davy DMX,
Nick Fraelich,
Kayak,
Stockholm Monsters,
The American Breed,
Public Image Ltd., Public Image Ltd., Public Image Ltd., Public Image Ltd..
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.