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 Peru and from Calgary.
But I was there.
I was there in 1968.
I was there at the first Can show in Cologne.
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 1964 to 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in New York and Copenhagen.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Accra 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 organ sounds with much patience.
I was there when Robert Palmer 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 Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel to the electroclash kids.
I played it at the 40 Watt.
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 K-Klass. All the underground hits.
All Subhumans tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Red Lorry Yellow Lorry record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grunge hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a 808 and a linndrum and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a 808.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Sixth Finger,
DJ Sneak,
the Human League,
Brand Nubian,
Gregory Isaacs,
The Blackbyrds,
Pierre Henry,
The Litter,
New Age Steppers,
Mandrill,
Echospace,
Livin' Joy,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
Whodini,
The Doobie Brothers,
Blake Baxter,
Zapp,
The Saints,
Joyce Sims,
Spandau Ballet,
Negative Approach,
Das Ding,
Nation of Ulysses,
Kayak,
Nas,
Trumans Water,
The Monks,
8 Eyed Spy,
The Pretty Things,
Silicon Teens,
Steve Hackett,
David McCallum,
Max Romeo,
Juan Atkins,
Porter Ricks,
Chris & Cosey,
Byron Stingily,
The Modern Lovers,
Soul II Soul,
Los Fastidios,
Flipper,
kango's stein massive,
Erasure,
The Martian,
Beasts of Bourbon,
Funky Four + One,
The Moleskins,
the Soft Cell,
Magazine,
Cybotron,
Electric Prunes,
Marvin Gaye,
Sunsets and Hearts,
John Holt,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson,
Louis and Bebe Barron,
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
Rites of Spring,
Camberwell Now,
Lucky Dragons,
Scientists, Scientists, Scientists, Scientists.
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.