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 Malaysia and from Stockholm.
But I was there.
I was there in 1975.
I was there at the first Throbbing Gristle show in 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 1965 to 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Houston and Philadelphia.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Calgary 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 rhodes sounds with much patience.
I was there when David Bowie 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 Doors to the dance kids.
I played it at the Spitz.
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 Hot Snakes. All the underground hits.
All Blossom Toes tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Wasted Youth record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal jazz hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a sitar and a chamberlin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a LL Cool J record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your organ and bought a linndrum.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought an organ.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
Larry & the Blue Notes,
The Mighty Diamonds,
Arcadia,
Animal Collective,
Tomorrow,
New York Dolls,
The Star Department,
The Electric Prunes,
Teenage Jesus and the Jerks,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
Bob Dylan,
Electric Prunes,
Q and Not U,
Angry Samoans,
The Techniques,
Roger Hodgson,
Barry Ungar,
Roxette,
Kings Of Tomorrow,
Organ,
China Crisis,
Grey Daturas,
The Blackbyrds,
Alison Limerick,
Agitation Free,
Smog,
Stereo Dub,
Avey Tare's Slasher Flicks,
Basic Channel,
Dorothy Ashby,
Chris & Cosey,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Alice Coltrane,
The Searchers,
Roxy Music,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Sly & The Family Stone,
D'Angelo,
FM Einheit,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
Fifty Foot Hose,
Cheater Slicks,
Delon & Dalcan,
The American Breed,
Peter and Kerry,
ABC,
The Toasters,
LL Cool J,
Outsiders,
Model 500,
Isaac Hayes,
The Moody Blues,
Kayak,
Faust,
Peter & Gordon,
The Raincoats,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
Massinfluence,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
Jeff Mills, Jeff Mills, Jeff Mills, Jeff Mills.
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.