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 Ghana and from Bologna.
But I was there.
I was there in 1979.
I was there at the first Josef K show in Edinburgh.
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 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Delhi and Bremen.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Beijing 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 spring reverb 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 Jawbox to the funk kids.
I played it at Trash.
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 Gichy Dan. All the underground hits.
All Yusef Lateef tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Tomorrow record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grunge hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a theremin and a 808 and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Black Flag record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a 808.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
a-ha,
Rosa Yemen,
DJ Style,
kango's stein massive,
James White and The Blacks,
Pharoah Sanders,
Quadrant,
New Order,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Idris Muhammad,
Au Pairs,
the Bar-Kays,
Popol Vuh,
The Fortunes,
Man Parrish,
Stetsasonic,
The Fuzztones,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
John Foxx,
Nik Kershaw,
The Names,
The Raincoats,
Sister Nancy,
E-Dancer,
Terrestrial Tones,
Tom Boy,
Los Fastidios,
Fela Kuti,
Con Funk Shun,
Little Man,
Newcleus,
The Sound,
The Angels of Light,
Kango’s Stein Massive,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
Chrome,
Pierre Henry,
Bauhaus,
Das Ding,
The Toasters,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Wally Richardson,
Soft Machine,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
Crime,
Howard Jones,
Kevin Saunderson,
Country Teasers,
Sad Lovers and Giants,
Davy DMX,
Aloha Tigers,
Unwound,
The Remains,
Silicon Teens,
MDC,
Leonard Cohen,
Skaos,
Mantronix,
Funky Four + One,
Smog,
Stockholm Monsters, Stockholm Monsters, Stockholm Monsters, Stockholm Monsters.
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.