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 Tunisia and from Seoul.
But I was there.
I was there in 1971.
I was there at the first Big Star show in Memphis.
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 1961 to 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Lagos and Hong Kong.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Hong Kong 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 1973 at the first Television practice in a loft in New York.
I was working on the harpsichord sounds with much patience.
I was there when Donald Fagen 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 N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell to the jazz kids.
I played it at the Astoria.
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 Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel. All the underground hits.
All Lalo Schifrin tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Lou Reed & Metallica 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 '70s.
I hear you're buying a sitar and a güiro and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Juan Atkins record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a linndrum.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a sitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Gichy Dan,
Basic Channel,
The Fire Engines,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Moby Grape,
Mary Jane Girls,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
Skarface,
Avey Tare's Slasher Flicks,
Deadbeat,
Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme,
Roger Hodgson,
Mantronix,
The Birthday Party,
Dual Sessions,
Kerri Chandler,
Scott Walker,
Symarip,
the Sonics,
Susan Cadogan,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Television Personalities,
Toni Rubio,
Brand Nubian,
Kaleidoscope,
Prince Buster,
Gerry Rafferty,
Funky Four + One,
Intrusion,
Subhumans,
The Men They Couldn't Hang,
The Young Rascals,
Section 25,
Howard Jones,
Josef K,
UT,
Be Bop Deluxe,
Thompson Twins,
Red Lorry Yellow Lorry,
Sugar Minott,
Agent Orange,
Dark Day,
Amon Düül,
Tropical Tobacco,
Wasted Youth,
Altered Images,
Girls At Our Best!,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
Moss Icon,
Brothers Johnson,
Guru Guru,
Harry Pussy,
Unwound,
DJ Style,
R.M.O.,
FM Einheit,
Fad Gadget,
Barbara Tucker,
Sonny Sharrock,
Warsaw, Warsaw, Warsaw, Warsaw.
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.