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 Stockholm.
But I was there.
I was there in 1967.
I was there at the first Rodriguez show in Detroit.
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 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Manchester and Tehran.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Milan 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 guitar 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 Chris & Cosey to the funk kids.
I played it at CBGB's.
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 Lower 48. All the underground hits.
All Nick Fraelich tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Au Pairs record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal dance 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 an arpeggiator and a sitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Chocolate Watch Band 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?
Television,
Qualms,
Kaleidoscope,
Agitation Free,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Saccharine Trust,
Metal Thangz,
Drive Like Jehu,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
Lalo Schifrin,
EPMD,
Boredoms,
the Bar-Kays,
Royal Trux,
Sun Ra,
The Fugs,
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
New Order,
Arcadia,
Man Eating Sloth,
Echo & the Bunnymen,
Richard Hell and the Voidoids,
Rotary Connection,
Roxette,
Ten City,
Pantaleimon,
The Doors,
Oneida,
Bobby Sherman,
Alice Coltrane,
Harmonia,
Kayak,
The Detroit Cobras,
Morten Harket,
Sun City Girls,
Wire,
Theoretical Girls,
Sunsets and Hearts,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
DJ Sneak,
Bronski Beat,
DJ Style,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
PIL,
Intrusion,
Index,
Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft,
Yusef Lateef,
Marine Girls,
The Fuzztones,
Mark Hollis,
Beasts of Bourbon,
Hasil Adkins,
Glambeats Corp.,
Isaac Hayes,
Nas,
Babytalk,
Gang of Four,
Maleditus Sound,
Tim Buckley, Tim Buckley, Tim Buckley, Tim Buckley.
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.