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 Laos and from Columbus.
But I was there.
I was there in 1971.
I was there at the first Neu! show in Düsseldorf.
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 1963 to 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Salvador and Bremen.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Johannesburg 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 David Bowie 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 Bill Near to the grime 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 Circle Jerks. All the underground hits.
All Saccharine Trust tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Cybotron record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rock hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a snare and a marimba and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Avey Tare record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a rhodes.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a linndrum.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Amazonics,
Reuben Wilson,
Al Stewart,
Ohio Players,
Marvin Gaye,
Laurel Aitken,
cv313,
Amon Düül II,
The Fugs,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
Gregory Isaacs,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
New Age Steppers,
Robert Hood,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Suicide,
The Wake,
the Sonics,
Basic Channel,
Yazoo,
Zero Boys,
Hardrive,
Prince Buster,
Carl Craig,
Q and Not U,
Black Moon,
Nas,
Ronan,
John Coltrane,
Electric Prunes,
Mary Jane Girls,
Leonard Cohen,
Skriet,
Soft Machine,
Duran Duran,
Letta Mbulu,
DNA,
Brand Nubian,
Be Bop Deluxe,
Nick Fraelich,
Lakeside,
New Order,
The Fortunes,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
Stereo Dub,
Heaven 17,
DJ Sneak,
Soul II Soul,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
Hasil Adkins,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Soulsonic Force,
The Grass Roots,
Donald Byrd,
Arab on Radar,
Anthony Braxton,
MDC,
Bang On A Can,
Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft,
Yaz,
Soul Sonic Force,
Bizarre Inc., Bizarre Inc., Bizarre Inc., Bizarre Inc..
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.