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 United States and from Jakarta.
But I was there.
I was there in 1979.
I was there at the first Second Layer show in South 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 1960 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Beijing and Philadelphia.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Johannesburg 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 chamberlin 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 Tubeway Army to the techno kids.
I played it at the Troubador.
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 Tres Demented. All the underground hits.
All X-101 tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Liaisons Dangereuses 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 '60s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a chamberlin and a chamberlin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a chamberlin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a mellotron.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Lindisfarne,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
JFA,
David Bowie,
Masters at Work,
Bootsy's Rubber Band,
Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft,
The Electric Prunes,
Radiopuhelimet,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
Alton Ellis,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
Tommy Roe,
Bobby Byrd,
Animal Collective,
Dead Boys,
Fluxion,
The Move,
Dawn Penn,
Visage,
Lalann,
X-101,
Parry Music,
Silicon Teens,
Vladislav Delay,
John Cale,
Johnny Osbourne,
Larry & the Blue Notes,
the Association,
the Swans,
Bobbi Humphrey,
Bobby Womack,
Alphaville,
Yellowson,
Rapeman,
The Cure,
MC5,
The Seeds,
Throbbing Gristle,
Hasil Adkins,
Kerri Chandler,
Gichy Dan,
Scott Walker,
Lee Hazlewood,
The Kinks,
Rhythm & Sound,
Faraquet,
Qualms,
Q65,
Bob Dylan,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
Rites of Spring,
Roxy Music,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Juan Atkins,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Popol Vuh,
Eric Dolphy,
Faust,
Dual Sessions,
Lungfish,
Lower 48,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience, Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience, Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience, Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience.
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.