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 Austria and from Accra.
But I was there.
I was there in 1980.
I was there at the first Cybotron show in Detroit.
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 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in London and Sao Paulo.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Bremen 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 sitar 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 Quantec to the disco kids.
I played it at CBGB's.
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 Khruangbin. All the underground hits.
All Faraquet tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Be Bop Deluxe record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rap hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying an organ and a sitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Hasil Adkins record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a spring reverb.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Cosmic Jokers,
Black Moon,
Country Teasers,
MC5,
Grandmaster Flash,
Warsaw,
Danielle Patucci,
Al Stewart,
Bauhaus,
The Wake,
The Moleskins,
The Red Krayola,
Amon Düül,
Peter & Gordon,
Sly & The Family Stone,
The Smiths,
Country Joe & The Fish,
Davy DMX,
Make Up,
Echospace,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Delta 5,
Junior Murvin,
Gang Starr,
China Crisis,
Groovy Waters,
Magma,
Quantec,
Hasil Adkins,
L. Decosne,
Hardrive,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
Pylon,
Crispian St. Peters,
Deadbeat,
Sugar Minott,
Joe Finger,
Chris & Cosey,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
Simply Red,
The Barracudas,
Dave Gahan,
Ice-T,
Gian Franco Pienzio,
Bang On A Can,
Black Sheep,
Pantytec,
Josef K,
Althea and Donna,
Hashim,
Marc Romboy vs. Booka Shade,
Nils Olav,
Fugazi,
Flipper,
John Cale,
Theoretical Girls,
Fela Kuti,
Bobby Byrd,
Barclay James Harvest,
Alphaville,
Gerry Rafferty,
Janne Schatter,
Bob Dylan, Bob Dylan, Bob Dylan, Bob Dylan.
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.