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 Armenia and from Mumbai.
But I was there.
I was there in 1970.
I was there at the first Onyeabor show in Enugu.
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 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Sao Paulo and Lagos.
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 rhodes 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 Kaleidoscope to the disco 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 CMW. All the underground hits.
All Rites of Spring tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Silicon Teens record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal punk 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 marimba and an organ and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Television Personalities record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your harpsichord and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a harpsichord.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Isaac Hayes,
Big Daddy Kane,
Delta 5,
Joe Smooth,
the Association,
Larry & the Blue Notes,
Matthew Bourne,
X-Ray Spex,
Albert Ayler,
KRS-One,
June of 44,
The Seeds,
Reuben Wilson,
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band,
Symarip,
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark,
Don Cherry,
Lyres,
Skarface,
Nico,
Camouflage,
Crispy Ambulance,
The Index,
Judy Mowatt,
Agitation Free,
The Slackers,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
Basic Channel,
Essential Logic,
The Jesus and Mary Chain,
Cameo,
Aural Exciters,
The Dirtbombs,
The Barracudas,
Siglo XX,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
Kayak,
Jandek,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
Pussy Galore,
Ronnie Foster,
EPMD,
Electric Light Orchestra,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Japan,
The Cramps,
The Gun Club,
Ossler,
Arcadia,
Heaven 17,
Eddi Front,
Sam Rivers,
The Beau Brummels,
Sight & Sound,
The Martian,
Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx,
Sound Behaviour,
Dark Day,
Lonnie Liston Smith, Lonnie Liston Smith, Lonnie Liston Smith, Lonnie Liston Smith.
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.