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 Burkina and from Lagos.
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 1969 to 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Seoul and Columbus.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Johannesburg 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 chamberlin 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 Patti Smith to the techno 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 K-Klass. All the underground hits.
All Sunsets and Hearts tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Smiths 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 '80s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a snare and a rhodes and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Vaughan Mason & Crew record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a mellotron.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a mellotron.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Scientists,
The Young Rascals,
Spoonie Gee,
Y Pants,
Reagan Youth,
The Selecter,
F. McDonald,
Audionom,
Intrusion,
Flamin' Groovies,
The Moleskins,
Darondo,
Freddie Wadling,
Crash Course in Science,
Stetsasonic,
Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines,
Whodini,
Barbara Tucker,
R.M.O.,
Roxy Music,
Aaron Thompson,
Roxette,
Alton Ellis,
The Wake,
The Mighty Diamonds,
The Trojans,
a-ha,
Gregory Isaacs,
Minny Pops,
Arcadia,
The Tremeloes,
Nik Kershaw,
Sandy B,
Faust,
Kayak,
Pere Ubu,
Qualms,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
MC5,
Negative Approach,
Black Pus,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
Quadrant,
Pet Shop Boys,
Tomorrow,
Quando Quango,
Glenn Branca,
Lou Reed,
Robert Görl,
X-102,
The Dave Clark Five,
Juan Atkins,
Index,
K-Klass,
Khruangbin,
Sällskapet,
Wings,
Scrapy,
The Music Machine,
Motorama,
Chrome,
Jerry's Kids, Jerry's Kids, Jerry's Kids, Jerry's Kids.
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.