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 Cairo.
But I was there.
I was there in 2001.
I was there at the first Tiga show in Montreal.
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 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Bremen and Johannesburg.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Paris 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 harpsichord sounds with much patience.
I was there when David Bowie 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 Names to the funk kids.
I played it at the Roxy.
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 Camberwell Now. All the underground hits.
All Lyres tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Youth Brigade record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal disco hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a sitar and a marimba and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Byron Stingily record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Nirvana,
Fat Boys,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Hoover,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
Minor Threat,
Bauhaus,
Adolescents,
A Certain Ratio,
The Pop Group,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Alphaville,
Girls At Our Best!,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
The Associates,
Mission of Burma,
Agent Orange,
Vainqueur,
Sparks,
The Fall,
The Vogues,
Pantaleimon,
Eli Mardock,
The Sisters of Mercy,
Barry Ungar,
The Detroit Cobras,
Richard Hell and the Voidoids,
The Dirtbombs,
Lebanon Hanover,
Gian Franco Pienzio,
Strawberry Alarm Clock,
Panda Bear,
Johnny Clarke,
The Invisible,
Skaos,
Yaz,
Aaron Thompson,
Los Fastidios,
Country Teasers,
Reuben Wilson,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
Saccharine Trust,
Crash Course in Science,
Roxette,
The Beau Brummels,
June of 44,
Erasure,
Larry & the Blue Notes,
Louis and Bebe Barron,
Audionom,
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band,
The Gun Club,
Bill Near,
Camberwell Now,
Bobbi Humphrey,
Sun City Girls,
John Lydon,
Radiohead,
Robert Wyatt, Robert Wyatt, Robert Wyatt, Robert Wyatt.
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.