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 Sri Lanka and from Salvador.
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 1962 to 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Bremen and Mumbai.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Shanghai 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 Robert Palmer 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 Urselle to the techno kids.
I played it at the Spitz.
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 Pet Shop Boys. All the underground hits.
All Ultimate Spinach tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Rekid record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rap 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 rhodes and a 808 and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Sound Behaviour record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought an oboe.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Neil Young,
Bronski Beat,
Ohio Players,
Maurizio,
Al Stewart,
Blossom Toes,
Loose Ends,
Cluster,
Angels of Light & Akron/Family,
Max Romeo,
Avey Tare's Slasher Flicks,
MC5,
Magma,
Fad Gadget,
Brick,
Bootsy Collins,
Aswad,
Kings Of Tomorrow,
China Crisis,
Sparks,
Jeru the Damaja,
Niagra,
Fluxion,
Ultra Naté,
Glambeats Corp.,
Eddi Front,
Electric Prunes,
John Coltrane,
Nas,
Judy Mowatt,
Public Enemy,
Skarface,
Dennis Brown,
Fort Wilson Riot,
AZ,
Idris Muhammad,
David Bowie,
The Velvet Underground,
Aural Exciters,
Pole,
UT,
Kango’s Stein Massive,
Gong,
The Monochrome Set,
The Mojo Men,
Popol Vuh,
This Heat,
Man Parrish,
The Count Five,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
R.M.O.,
James White and The Blacks,
Monolake,
Flash Fearless,
Man Eating Sloth,
The Searchers,
Saccharine Trust,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
LL Cool J,
Yazoo,
Thinking Fellers Union Local 282,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan, Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan, Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan, Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan.
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.