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 Guinea and from Taipei.
But I was there.
I was there in 1979.
I was there at the first Josef K show in Edinburgh.
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 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Paris and London.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Sao Paulo 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 808 sounds with much patience.
I was there when Lou Reed 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 These Immortal Souls to the rock kids.
I played it at CBGB's.
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 X-Ray Spex. All the underground hits.
All Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Loose Ends record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grime hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a marimba and an oboe and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Pet Shop Boys record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your güiro and bought a spring reverb.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a güiro.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Arab on Radar,
Tommy Roe,
Josef K,
Rosa Yemen,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Erykah Badu,
Marcia Griffiths,
Lalo Schifrin,
Man Parrish,
Blossom Toes,
Barry Ungar,
Monolake,
Tim Buckley,
Sixth Finger,
The Smiths,
The Invisible,
The Skatalites,
Archie Shepp,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
Eric Dolphy,
Unrelated Segments,
Warsaw,
The Black Dice,
Lakeside,
D'Angelo,
Can,
The Peanut Butter Conspiracy,
Niagra,
Tropical Tobacco,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
Eden Ahbez,
Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft,
Graham Central Station,
Selector Dub Narcotic,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
Fort Wilson Riot,
Alton Ellis,
In Retrospect,
Jimmy McGriff,
Scientists,
Echospace,
a-ha,
Main Source,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
The Leaves,
Zapp,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
Au Pairs,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
the Swans,
New Age Steppers,
David Axelrod,
Banda Bassotti,
Drive Like Jehu,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
The Sisters of Mercy,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
Donald Byrd,
Eric Copeland,
Guru Guru,
Flash Fearless,
Grandmaster Flash,
Janne Schatter, Janne Schatter, Janne Schatter, Janne Schatter.
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.