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 East Timor and from Spokane.
But I was there.
I was there in 1979.
I was there at the first Second Layer show in South London.
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 1963 to 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Calgary and Sao Paulo.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Stockholm 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 linndrum sounds with much patience.
I was there when Holger Czukay 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 Porter Ricks to the techno kids.
I played it at the Troubador.
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 Bang on a Can All-Stars. All the underground hits.
All Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grunge 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 arpeggiator and a sitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Excepter record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a harpsichord.
I hear that you and your band have sold your harpsichord 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?
Faust,
Pantytec,
CMW,
Fad Gadget,
Bizarre Inc.,
Andrew Hill,
Public Enemy,
Brick,
Aural Exciters,
Bobbi Humphrey,
Joensuu 1685,
Subhumans,
Minnie Riperton,
EPMD,
Cybotron,
Reagan Youth,
Simply Red,
Kango’s Stein Massive,
The Fortunes,
Ken Boothe,
The Human League,
Zero Boys,
Dennis Brown,
Amon Düül,
Half Japanese,
Aswad,
Terry Callier,
Icehouse,
Nas,
Derrick Morgan,
KRS-One,
Jawbox,
Masters at Work,
LL Cool J,
The Alarm Clocks,
Groovy Waters,
Blossom Toes,
Faraquet,
Minutemen,
DNA,
The Pop Group,
Archie Shepp,
The Knickerbockers,
Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme,
Stiv Bators,
Skarface,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
Grandmaster Flash,
Rotary Connection,
The Wake,
Sister Nancy,
Mad Mike,
Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx,
The Tremeloes,
Country Teasers,
Letta Mbulu,
The New Christs,
Alton Ellis,
The Saints,
The Offenders,
Duran Duran,
Jimmy McGriff,
Cluster,
Isaac Hayes,
Grey Daturas, Grey Daturas, Grey Daturas, Grey Daturas.
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.