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 Haiti and from Paris.
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 1964 to 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Jakarta and Sao Paulo.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Woodstock 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 linndrum 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 Roy Ayers Ubiquity to the techno kids.
I played it at the Hacienda.
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 Swans. All the underground hits.
All Yellowson tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Marvin Gaye 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 '60s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a mellotron and a spring reverb and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Mo-Dettes record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a rhodes.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Ludus,
Avey Tare's Slasher Flicks,
Isaac Hayes,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Sonic Youth,
Funky Four + One,
a-ha,
Charles Mingus,
Leonard Cohen,
Dennis Brown,
Quando Quango,
Amon Düül II,
DJ Style,
The Sisters of Mercy,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
Robert Görl,
Barclay James Harvest,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
Mark Hollis,
Dave Gahan,
Eric Dolphy,
Nils Olav,
Pylon,
Connie Case,
Pantytec,
The Gladiators,
Davy DMX,
the Germs,
Strawberry Alarm Clock,
Bill Wells,
Negative Approach,
Visage,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
Funkadelic,
Masters at Work,
Liliput,
Whodini,
the Swans,
Lower 48,
48th St. Collective,
Janne Schatter,
Gichy Dan,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
D'Angelo,
Skriet,
Rhythm & Sound,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
The Dead C,
Avey Tare,
Sound Behaviour,
Sight & Sound,
Al Stewart,
DJ Sneak,
Technova,
The Slits,
Black Bananas,
It's A Beautiful Day,
Eve St. Jones,
Basic Channel,
Procol Harum,
Neil Young,
Stiv Bators,
Section 25, Section 25, Section 25, Section 25.
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.