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 Togo and from Delhi.
But I was there.
I was there in 1983.
I was there at the first Art of Noise 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 1969 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Manila and New York.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Lyon 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 marimba sounds with much patience.
I was there when Michael McDonald 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 Marshall Jefferson to the dance 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 Monolake. All the underground hits.
All The Techniques tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Groovy Waters 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 '80s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a linndrum and a sitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Leonard Cohen record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a snare.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
La Düsseldorf,
Delon & Dalcan,
Richard Hell and the Voidoids,
Marc Romboy vs. Booka Shade,
Underground Resistance,
Shoche,
Todd Rundgren,
Cabaret Voltaire,
Duran Duran,
Wire,
Jandek,
Guru Guru,
Schoolly D,
Depeche Mode,
Fear,
Letta Mbulu,
The Cure,
Kango’s Stein Massive,
Laurel Aitken,
The Jesus and Mary Chain,
Bizarre Inc.,
Stockholm Monsters,
Scientists,
Nirvana,
Stiv Bators,
the Sonics,
The Walker Brothers,
Kevin Saunderson,
Bad Manners,
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band,
Sunsets and Hearts,
PIL,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
Sonny Sharrock,
K-Klass,
The Angels of Light,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
The Tremeloes,
The Raincoats,
Alison Limerick,
The Music Machine,
The Gladiators,
The Standells,
Davy DMX,
Aaron Thompson,
The Fortunes,
Roy Ayers Ubiquity,
Nik Kershaw,
Lalo Schifrin,
Minutemen,
Crispy Ambulance,
Liaisons Dangereuses,
Dead Boys,
Roy Ayers,
kango's stein massive,
Aswad,
AZ,
Banda Bassotti,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
Drexciya,
X-Ray Spex,
Infiniti,
Electric Light Orchestra,
Boogie Down Productions, Boogie Down Productions, Boogie Down Productions, Boogie Down Productions.
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.