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 Sweden and from Jakarta.
But I was there.
I was there in 1977.
I was there at the first Mistral show in Amsterdam.
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 1963 to 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Portland and Copenhagen.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Taipei 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 Donald Fagen 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 Slits to the dance kids.
I played it at the Crocodile.
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 FM Einheit. All the underground hits.
All AZ tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Fatback Band 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 '70s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a mellotron and a güiro and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Gil Scott Heron record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a chamberlin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Robert Hood,
Byron Stingily,
The Vogues,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
Joe Smooth,
The Black Dice,
The Smiths,
The Offenders,
The Skatalites,
The Evens,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
Kas Product,
Robert Görl,
Glenn Branca,
Echo & the Bunnymen,
Make Up,
Livin' Joy,
Bronski Beat,
Hoover,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Pierre Henry,
Liliput,
Agent Orange,
Icehouse,
PIL,
Barbara Tucker,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
The Star Department,
Gang Green,
8 Eyed Spy,
Sly & The Family Stone,
The Red Krayola,
Neu!,
Silicon Teens,
Audionom,
ABBA,
Eve St. Jones,
Sixth Finger,
Cabaret Voltaire,
Lucky Dragons,
Thee Headcoats,
Alton Ellis,
Marc Almond,
The Pop Group,
Eden Ahbez,
Barry Ungar,
The Dave Clark Five,
Grandmaster Flash,
Sam Rivers,
Monks,
Ralphi Rosario,
The Monks,
Jandek,
The Count Five,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
Freddie Wadling,
Lakeside,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
Donald Byrd,
Altered Images,
Khruangbin,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic, Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic, Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic, Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic.
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.