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 Haiti and from Manchester.
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 1961 to 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Lyon and Spokane.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Portland 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 1977 at the first Human League practice in a loft in Sheffield.
I was working on the rhodes sounds with much patience.
I was there when Donald Fagen 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 Real Kids to the disco kids.
I played it at the 40 Watt.
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 Lonnie Liston Smith tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Procol Harum 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 '50s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying an oboe and a theremin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Tom Boy record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a rhodes.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Das Ding,
Maleditus Sound,
Eric Copeland,
Gabor Szabo,
Mantronix,
ABC,
Archie Shepp,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
Drexciya,
DNA,
Leonard Cohen,
Electric Light Orchestra,
The Walker Brothers,
Rod Modell,
The Fire Engines,
Jawbox,
The Cowsills,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
Bobby Byrd,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
Mission of Burma,
Pagans,
Nirvana,
Alice Coltrane,
Liliput,
Throbbing Gristle,
Shoche,
Cameo,
Cabaret Voltaire,
Scan 7,
Fad Gadget,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
Henry Cow,
Mr. Review,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Deadbeat,
Minnie Riperton,
Skriet,
Anakelly,
Lou Christie,
Nation of Ulysses,
Colin Newman,
Underground Resistance,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
Bizarre Inc.,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Minor Threat,
Moby Grape,
Surgeon,
the Human League,
Boz Scaggs,
The Slits,
Nick Fraelich,
Guru Guru,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Marshall Jefferson,
Cal Tjader,
Brothers Johnson,
The Monks,
Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines,
Royal Trux,
Radiopuhelimet,
Japan,
Public Enemy,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band, Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band, Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band, Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band.
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.