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 Burkina and from Mexico City.
But I was there.
I was there in 1976.
I was there at the first Chic show in New York.
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 1960 to 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Taipei and Woodstock.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Seoul 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 organ sounds with much patience.
I was there when Tom Verlaine 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 Guru Guru to the disco 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 Fear. All the underground hits.
All Bill Near tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Selecter record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal electroclash hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a mellotron and a guitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Lebanon Hanover record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought a mellotron.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a snare.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Roger Hodgson,
The Techniques,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
Liaisons Dangereuses,
Talk Talk,
Kurtis Blow,
Alphaville,
Scratch Acid,
Kaleidoscope,
Black Sheep,
Larry & the Blue Notes,
Bluetip,
Lucky Dragons,
Subhumans,
Animal Collective,
The Durutti Column,
Big Daddy Kane,
X-101,
Lou Christie,
Dave Gahan,
Stereo Dub,
Johnny Osbourne,
Bobbi Humphrey,
Kevin Saunderson,
Symarip,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
Minnie Riperton,
Terry Callier,
KRS-One,
MC5,
Japan,
The Motions,
X-102,
David Axelrod,
Pylon,
Pussy Galore,
Scientists,
Desert Stars,
Gang Starr,
The Modern Lovers,
Eden Ahbez,
Don Cherry,
Magazine,
Public Image Ltd.,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
David Bowie,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Lindisfarne,
Newcleus,
Derrick May,
The Walker Brothers,
Ronnie Foster,
New Age Steppers,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
H. Thieme,
Shoche,
Black Flag,
Blossom Toes,
Khruangbin,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience, Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience, Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience, Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience.
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.