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 St Lucia and from Toronto.
But I was there.
I was there in 1980.
I was there at the first Cybotron show in Detroit.
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 1969 to 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Portland and New York.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Delhi 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 chamberlin 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 Red Lorry Yellow Lorry to the techno kids.
I played it at the 40 Watt.
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 The Gories. All the underground hits.
All Lou Christie tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Bobby Sherman 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 '80s.
I hear you're buying a clarinet and a marimba and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Echo & the Bunnymen record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a spring reverb.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a rhodes.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Drive Like Jehu,
Radiopuhelimet,
Brass Construction,
Babytalk,
Tom Boy,
Electric Prunes,
Echo & the Bunnymen,
Patti Smith,
Traffic Nightmare,
Y Pants,
Thee Headcoats,
U.S. Maple,
Leonard Cohen,
Magma,
Buzzcocks,
Black Pus,
Soft Cell,
Pylon,
Panda Bear,
Kenny Larkin,
The Mighty Diamonds,
Fad Gadget,
Jandek,
Nico,
Fluxion,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Franke,
Black Moon,
Heaven 17,
Chris & Cosey,
Wire,
Goldenarms,
Robert Wyatt,
Brothers Johnson,
LL Cool J,
Albert Ayler,
Skarface,
Anthony Braxton,
Yaz,
The Gories,
Eddi Front,
Grauzone,
Sight & Sound,
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
Lebanon Hanover,
Cluster,
Eden Ahbez,
10cc,
The Count Five,
The Walker Brothers,
Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme,
The Golliwogs,
Rufus Thomas,
Don Cherry,
Bizarre Inc.,
Organ,
Underground Resistance,
CMW,
The Moleskins,
Dorothy Ashby,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
Althea and Donna,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Basic Channel, Basic Channel, Basic Channel, Basic Channel.
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.