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 Iceland and from Tokyo.
But I was there.
I was there in 1971.
I was there at the first Selda show in Istanbul.
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 Philadelphia and Tokyo.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Manila 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 clarinet 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 Cluster to the rock kids.
I played it at the Hacienda.
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 Liaisons Dangereuses. All the underground hits.
All Quando Quango tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Lou Reed record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grime hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a synthesizer and a chamberlin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Joensuu 1685 record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought a linndrum.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a snare.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Bang on a Can All-Stars,
Byron Stingily,
Lakeside,
the Swans,
LL Cool J,
Section 25,
Black Bananas,
DJ Style,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
Michelle Simonal,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Ultra Naté,
Funkadelic,
Von Mondo,
Todd Rundgren,
June Days,
The Offenders,
The Slits,
Yellowson,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
Sam Rivers,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Liaisons Dangereuses,
The Names,
The Happenings,
Davy DMX,
Dave Gahan,
Tomorrow,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Sarah Menescal,
Quantec,
Depeche Mode,
Arab on Radar,
Glambeats Corp.,
Anthony Braxton,
Radiopuhelimet,
Q and Not U,
Skaos,
Peter and Kerry,
Nation of Ulysses,
The Five Americans,
Blossom Toes,
Soft Machine,
The Evens,
Monolake,
Marine Girls,
Erykah Badu,
Blake Baxter,
Radiohead,
Slick Rick,
Jerry Gold Smith,
Kings Of Tomorrow,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
Dawn Penn,
Schoolly D,
John Holt,
Ossler,
Donny Hathaway,
Q65,
Skriet,
Joy Division,
JFA, JFA, JFA, JFA.
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.