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 Guatemala and from Cairo.
But I was there.
I was there in 1975.
I was there at the first Throbbing Gristle 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 1969 to 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Stockholm and Manila.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Sao Paulo 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 marimba 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 The Sonics to the rap 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 Basic Channel. All the underground hits.
All Make Up tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Yellowson 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 '60s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying an organ and a rhodes and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Detroit Cobras record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought a 808.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 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 Vogues,
Easy Going,
John Lydon,
Vainqueur,
Kool Moe Dee,
Beasts of Bourbon,
Bauhaus,
Khruangbin,
The Sound,
Harry Pussy,
Whodini,
Moby Grape,
Cal Tjader,
Wasted Youth,
Toni Rubio,
Desert Stars,
Aloha Tigers,
The Count Five,
The Sonics,
Flash Fearless,
Quantec,
Avey Tare's Slasher Flicks,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
Stockholm Monsters,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
The Smoke,
Gabor Szabo,
Infiniti,
Marcia Griffiths,
Kenny Larkin,
Slick Rick,
Ronnie Foster,
Be Bop Deluxe,
In Retrospect,
Janne Schatter,
The Associates,
Gang Gang Dance,
Amazonics,
The Victims,
T.S.O.L.,
Dorothy Ashby,
Royal Trux,
Roxette,
Black Flag,
Kevin Saunderson,
Camouflage,
Nik Kershaw,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Flamin' Groovies,
Terry Callier,
Tropical Tobacco,
Supertramp,
Magazine,
Jerry Gold Smith,
New Order,
Surgeon,
Eddi Front,
kango's stein massive,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz, Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz, Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz, Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz.
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.