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 Namibia and from Delhi.
But I was there.
I was there in 1971.
I was there at the first Big Star show in Memphis.
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 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in New York and Sao Paulo.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Salvador 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 sitar 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 Altered Images to the funk 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 the Bar-Kays. All the underground hits.
All Terrestrial Tones tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grime hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying an arpeggiator and a rhodes and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Electric Light Orchestra record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a spring reverb.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a mellotron.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Victims,
The United States of America,
Cymande,
The Moleskins,
Ash Ra Tempel,
Warren Ellis,
Bauhaus,
Bootsy's Rubber Band,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
Lyres,
Banda Bassotti,
Pussy Galore,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Lee Hazlewood,
The Smiths,
Cheater Slicks,
The Jesus and Mary Chain,
Animal Collective,
Index,
Babytalk,
Danielle Patucci,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Camberwell Now,
Easy Going,
The Blackbyrds,
Soul Sonic Force,
Blancmange,
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band,
James Chance & The Contortions,
Dennis Brown,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
Rekid,
Model 500,
Monks,
Ice-T,
China Crisis,
Bronski Beat,
Quantec,
T.S.O.L.,
The Neon Judgement,
The Trojans,
Lower 48,
Alison Limerick,
Sugar Minott,
Amazonics,
Camouflage,
Graham Central Station,
Agent Orange,
Aloha Tigers,
Man Parrish,
The Smoke,
Angry Samoans,
The Searchers,
Urselle,
Pet Shop Boys,
Boredoms,
Connie Case,
ABBA,
Harmonia,
Fat Boys,
JFA,
Popol Vuh, Popol Vuh, Popol Vuh, Popol Vuh.
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.