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 Lithuania and from Tokyo.
But I was there.
I was there in 1984.
I was there at the first Arcadia 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 1964 to 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Delhi and Salvador.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Accra 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 synthesizer 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 Masters at Work to the techno kids.
I played it at Cafe Wha.
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 Don Cherry. All the underground hits.
All Joy Division tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Nico record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal crunk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a guitar and a sitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Lee Hazlewood record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a rhodes.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought an oboe.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Eve St. Jones,
Model 500,
Sonny Sharrock,
Strawberry Alarm Clock,
Mad Mike,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
Ultimate Spinach,
Yazoo,
Pet Shop Boys,
Sight & Sound,
a-ha,
48th St. Collective,
Nils Olav,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
The Sound,
Robert Hood,
Parry Music,
The Moleskins,
Quadrant,
Lebanon Hanover,
Soul Sonic Force,
Derrick May,
Fatback Band,
Sister Nancy,
The Searchers,
John Foxx,
The Moody Blues,
the Germs,
Cameo,
Deadbeat,
Infiniti,
Robert Wyatt,
Pharoah Sanders,
Joy Division,
Charles Mingus,
Wasted Youth,
Symarip,
Deepchord,
Boogie Down Productions,
The Zeros,
Neil Young,
Sonic Youth,
Barclay James Harvest,
Gregory Isaacs,
Anakelly,
The Gladiators,
Alison Limerick,
Grey Daturas,
Moss Icon,
Yusef Lateef,
The Gories,
Beasts of Bourbon,
Kevin Saunderson,
Circle Jerks,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
Janne Schatter,
The Gun Club,
Magazine,
Slave,
Zapp,
Liliput,
Eric Dolphy, Eric Dolphy, Eric Dolphy, Eric Dolphy.
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.