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 Mauritius and from Copenhagen.
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 1961 to 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Hong Kong and Cairo.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Houston 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 sitar 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 Brothers Johnson 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 Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic. All the underground hits.
All Hot Snakes tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every the Association 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 '70s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying an oboe and a synthesizer and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Harpers Bizarre record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought a spring reverb.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a snare.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Star Department,
Royal Trux,
Deakin,
Don Cherry,
Das Ding,
Blake Baxter,
Gang Green,
DJ Style,
Larry & the Blue Notes,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
New Order,
Lebanon Hanover,
Boredoms,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
Throbbing Gristle,
Neu!,
the Fania All-Stars,
Peter & Gordon,
Kango’s Stein Massive,
Johnny Osbourne,
the Association,
The Smiths,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Hot Snakes,
Livin' Joy,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
Chrome,
Joe Finger,
Mandrill,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
The Grass Roots,
The Associates,
Frankie Knuckles,
The Invisible,
Liaisons Dangereuses,
EPMD,
Eve St. Jones,
Organ,
Crooked Eye,
Nik Kershaw,
Johnny Clarke,
48th St. Collective,
Al Stewart,
Darondo,
Max Romeo,
The Knickerbockers,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
The Cramps,
Nils Olav,
UT,
the Human League,
The Mighty Diamonds,
Cal Tjader,
The New Christs,
The Music Machine,
Traffic Nightmare,
Ultra Naté,
Lalann,
Jeff Mills,
Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson,
Scientists,
Sandy B, Sandy B, Sandy B, Sandy B.
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.