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 Tuvalu and from Calgary.
But I was there.
I was there in 1976.
I was there at the first Wire show in Watford.
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 1961 to 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Halifax and Beijing.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Bremen 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 1967 at the first Rodriguez practice in a loft in Detroit.
I was working on the chamberlin sounds with much patience.
I was there when Lou Reed 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 Nirvana to the punk kids.
I played it at the Hacienda.
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 Dorothy Ashby. All the underground hits.
All Flipper tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Donald Byrd 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 '50s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a chamberlin and a linndrum and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Desert Stars record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a spring reverb.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a theremin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Loose Ends,
Crooked Eye,
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark,
Bobbi Humphrey,
The Wake,
Rakim,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
Kaleidoscope,
T. Rex,
The Velvet Underground,
Glambeats Corp.,
Nas,
Cecil Taylor,
Monolake,
Louis and Bebe Barron,
Newcleus,
Danielle Patucci,
Juan Atkins,
The Walker Brothers,
Fluxion,
U.S. Maple,
The Smiths,
The Neon Judgement,
The Gap Band,
Average White Band,
Curtis Mayfield,
Frankie Knuckles,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
Monks,
David Axelrod,
Panda Bear,
Niagra,
The Fortunes,
Nik Kershaw,
Faraquet,
Ohio Players,
Pantaleimon,
Sam Rivers,
Symarip,
Pagans,
LL Cool J,
John Cale,
Stetsasonic,
Clear Light,
Max Romeo,
Terry Callier,
The Fall,
Crime,
James Chance & The Contortions,
Sonic Youth,
Television,
Pet Shop Boys,
John Lydon,
The Stooges,
Rufus Thomas,
Aaron Thompson,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Main Source,
JFA,
Sixth Finger,
CMW,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel, Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel, Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel, Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel.
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.