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 France and from Stockholm.
But I was there.
I was there in 1978.
I was there at the first Visage 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 1966 to 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Glasgow and Mexico City.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Mumbai 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 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 Lou Christie to the funk kids.
I played it at the Roxy.
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 The Cowsills. All the underground hits.
All The Pop Group tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Alton Ellis record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal disco 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 an arpeggiator and a marimba and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Public Enemy record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a snare.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Chrome,
Fort Wilson Riot,
Soul Sonic Force,
Jimmy McGriff,
Sugar Minott,
Amon Düül,
Deadbeat,
World's Most,
Adolescents,
KRS-One,
The Zeros,
Royal Trux,
Donny Hathaway,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
Magma,
Scientists,
ABC,
T.S.O.L.,
Fela Kuti,
Parry Music,
Quando Quango,
Flipper,
Mo-Dettes,
Joy Division,
Moss Icon,
Tom Boy,
Barry Ungar,
Blake Baxter,
The Music Machine,
Con Funk Shun,
Tres Demented,
Susan Cadogan,
Angry Samoans,
The Human League,
Charles Mingus,
X-102,
The Fall,
Rufus Thomas,
The Victims,
Intrusion,
Johnny Clarke,
Vainqueur,
Tubeway Army,
Thee Headcoats,
Deepchord,
Dual Sessions,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
the Germs,
James Chance & The Contortions,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
Black Sheep,
Unrelated Segments,
Kayak,
JFA,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
Pierre Henry,
Wally Richardson,
John Coltrane,
The Black Dice,
Art Ensemble Of Chicago,
Erykah Badu,
The Moleskins,
Negative Approach,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic, Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic, Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic, Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic.
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.