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 Sudan and from Tehran.
But I was there.
I was there in 1984.
I was there at the first Arcadia show in 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 Mumbai and Lagos.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Toronto 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 clarinet sounds with much patience.
I was there when David Bowie 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 Flash Fearless to the techno 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 Underground Resistance. All the underground hits.
All Pharoah Sanders tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every ABC record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal punk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a güiro and a linndrum and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Masters at Work record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a snare.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Tim Buckley,
Anthony Braxton,
Sarah Menescal,
Vladislav Delay,
Little Man,
Hasil Adkins,
Cecil Taylor,
Nico,
Inner City,
The Names,
Pussy Galore,
Jacob Miller,
Harmonia,
Gabor Szabo,
Severed Heads,
Rhythm & Sound,
Sonny Sharrock,
Animal Collective,
Nick Fraelich,
Marvin Gaye,
Intrusion,
L. Decosne,
Grey Daturas,
The Evens,
Average White Band,
Bobby Sherman,
Delta 5,
It's A Beautiful Day,
The Mighty Diamonds,
Goldenarms,
Eden Ahbez,
Pharoah Sanders,
Richard Hell and the Voidoids,
Alton Ellis,
Hoover,
48th St. Collective,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
Wasted Youth,
LL Cool J,
Icehouse,
Ralphi Rosario,
Josef K,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Camberwell Now,
OOIOO,
JFA,
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark,
Soulsonic Force,
Joy Division,
Monks,
Gregory Isaacs,
Unwound,
Roger Hodgson,
Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft,
Delon & Dalcan,
Panda Bear,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
Altered Images,
Chrome,
Circle Jerks,
Sam Rivers,
Andrew Hill,
Adolescents,
Lou Reed & Metallica, Lou Reed & Metallica, Lou Reed & Metallica, Lou Reed & Metallica.
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.