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 Nepal and from Jakarta.
But I was there.
I was there in 1968.
I was there at the first Bowie show in Bromley.
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 1965 to 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Houston and Shanghai.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Philadelphia 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 linndrum 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 Bluetip to the techno kids.
I played it at Cafe Wha.
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 Music Machine. All the underground hits.
All The Mighty Diamonds tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Avey Tare's Slasher Flicks record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal crunk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a chamberlin and an arpeggiator and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Kings Of Tomorrow record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a linndrum.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
David Axelrod,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Pantytec,
Animal Collective,
Roxy Music,
Maurizio,
Soul II Soul,
Boogie Down Productions,
Sly & The Family Stone,
Joyce Sims,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Girls At Our Best!,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
Stiv Bators,
F. McDonald,
The Mummies,
Henry Cow,
La Düsseldorf,
The Blackbyrds,
Lungfish,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Liliput,
Shoche,
The Misunderstood,
Eric Dolphy,
Outsiders,
ABBA,
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band,
Selector Dub Narcotic,
Ossler,
The Monochrome Set,
Delon & Dalcan,
Flamin' Groovies,
Soulsonic Force,
Deadbeat,
The New Christs,
Scientists,
Little Man,
The Doors,
PIL,
Lou Reed,
Gabor Szabo,
the Sonics,
Lee Hazlewood,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme,
Hashim,
Kerrie Biddell,
Michelle Simonal,
Stockholm Monsters,
Vainqueur,
The Toasters,
Eddi Front,
Teenage Jesus and the Jerks,
Lindisfarne,
Janne Schatter,
Bad Manners,
Art Ensemble Of Chicago,
Whodini,
Anthony Braxton,
Das Ding,
Piero Umiliani, Piero Umiliani, Piero Umiliani, Piero Umiliani.
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.