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 Qatar and from Woodstock.
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 1965 to 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Hong Kong and Mexico City.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Tehran 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 1975 at the first Throbbing Gristle practice in a loft in London.
I was working on the harpsichord 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 The Cramps to the punk 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 One Last Wish. All the underground hits.
All Judy Mowatt tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Soul Sonic Force record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal funk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a harpsichord and a marimba and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Soulsonic Force record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a mellotron.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a 808.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Ludus,
La Düsseldorf,
Alison Limerick,
Lou Reed,
Metal Thangz,
The Vogues,
Wasted Youth,
Yusef Lateef,
Average White Band,
The Slits,
Lou Christie,
Panda Bear,
Easy Going,
Guru Guru,
Delon & Dalcan,
Sex Pistols,
The Barracudas,
Liliput,
Loose Ends,
Ponytail,
Curtis Mayfield,
Neil Young,
The Blackbyrds,
Ash Ra Tempel,
Agitation Free,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson,
Sad Lovers and Giants,
The Seeds,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Monolake,
Depeche Mode,
Pagans,
The Angels of Light,
Matthew Halsall,
Richard Hell and the Voidoids,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Colin Newman,
Todd Rundgren,
Spoonie Gee,
Pulsallama,
Soul Sonic Force,
The Monochrome Set,
Pere Ubu,
Minor Threat,
The Happenings,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
Sarah Menescal,
Kerri Chandler,
The Shadows of Knight,
Kayak,
Smog,
The Stooges,
Young Marble Giants,
Shoche,
Minny Pops,
The Slackers,
The Fugs,
kango's stein massive,
Suburban Knight, Suburban Knight, Suburban Knight, Suburban Knight.
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.