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 Slovenia and from Columbus.
But I was there.
I was there in 1977.
I was there at the first Zapp show in Hamilton.
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 Bremen and Mumbai.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Manila 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 Holger Czukay 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 Inner City to the rap 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 Sun Ra. All the underground hits.
All Royal Trux tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every EPMD 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 '70s.
I hear you're buying a rhodes and a clarinet and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Fear record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your marimba and bought a spring reverb.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a marimba.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Swell Maps,
The Sonics,
Soul Sonic Force,
The Moleskins,
Steve Hackett,
Oneida,
The Happenings,
The Golliwogs,
Pere Ubu,
Mars,
Yaz,
The Cowsills,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
10cc,
Absolute Body Control,
Fela Kuti,
Radio Birdman,
The Associates,
Glambeats Corp.,
Alison Limerick,
Todd Terry,
the Swans,
The Jesus and Mary Chain,
Carl Craig,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
Eric Copeland,
Byron Stingily,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Colin Newman,
Minor Threat,
Liaisons Dangereuses,
Blancmange,
Hasil Adkins,
The Fortunes,
Matthew Halsall,
Crash Course in Science,
Severed Heads,
Frankie Knuckles,
Cameo,
Jeff Lynne,
Rod Modell,
Robert Hood,
Barbara Tucker,
Shoche,
Panda Bear,
Gang Starr,
Drive Like Jehu,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
The Grass Roots,
Cluster,
Warren Ellis,
The Saints,
Deadbeat,
JFA,
Crispy Ambulance,
The Divine Comedy,
Nick Fraelich,
Fugazi,
Porter Ricks, Porter Ricks, Porter Ricks, Porter Ricks.
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.