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 Vanuatu and from Mexico City.
But I was there.
I was there in 1971.
I was there at the first Big Star show in Memphis.
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 1967 to 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Milan and Philadelphia.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Columbus 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 1979 at the first Josef K practice in a loft in Edinburgh.
I was working on the sitar sounds with much patience.
I was there when Nile Rodgers 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 Isaac Hayes to the crunk kids.
I played it at Trash.
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 Swans. All the underground hits.
All Moby Grape tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Ronan 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 '80s.
I hear you're buying a güiro and a snare and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Swell Maps record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your marimba and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a marimba.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Cheater Slicks,
the Normal,
Alison Limerick,
Tommy Roe,
Deakin,
Jimmy McGriff,
Sällskapet,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
Rufus Thomas,
Dual Sessions,
Neil Young,
Glenn Branca,
Black Flag,
Adolescents,
Kerrie Biddell,
New Order,
Aloha Tigers,
Sly & The Family Stone,
Jeru the Damaja,
Lou Reed,
Rotary Connection,
Vladislav Delay,
Pantytec,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
ABC,
Urselle,
Iggy Pop,
Stetsasonic,
Delon & Dalcan,
Skarface,
Second Layer,
Alton Ellis,
X-102,
Todd Terry,
Panda Bear,
Dave Gahan,
Harmonia,
The Barracudas,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Con Funk Shun,
The Wake,
Max Romeo,
a-ha,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
Shoche,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
Kevin Saunderson,
Warsaw,
Johnny Osbourne,
Selector Dub Narcotic,
Fugazi,
Popol Vuh,
Eurythmics,
Kerri Chandler,
Section 25,
Crooked Eye,
EPMD,
Trumans Water,
Marvin Gaye,
The Real Kids,
Teenage Jesus and the Jerks,
The Sonics, The Sonics, The Sonics, The Sonics.
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.