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 Jamaica and from Jakarta.
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 1967 to 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Manchester and Madrid.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Taipei 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 1967 at the first Rodriguez practice in a loft in Detroit.
I was working on the harpsichord 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 Subhumans to the electroclash 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 Electric Light Orchestra. All the underground hits.
All Warren Ellis tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Marc Romboy vs. Booka Shade record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grime hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a rhodes and a güiro and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Junior Murvin record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a spring reverb.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a linndrum.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Albert Ayler,
Nas,
Buzzcocks,
Mantronix,
Stetsasonic,
Soft Cell,
Aloha Tigers,
Black Flag,
Drive Like Jehu,
Outsiders,
Sonny Sharrock,
Jacob Miller,
Camberwell Now,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
the Germs,
OOIOO,
Pylon,
Section 25,
Sunsets and Hearts,
Guru Guru,
Fear,
The Index,
Metal Thangz,
Lindisfarne,
Skaos,
Qualms,
Traffic Nightmare,
Sam Rivers,
The Gladiators,
The United States of America,
The Electric Prunes,
Country Teasers,
London Community Gospel Choir,
Altered Images,
Average White Band,
Jimmy McGriff,
kango's stein massive,
Josef K,
Derrick Morgan,
Aswad,
The Star Department,
Big Daddy Kane,
Rotary Connection,
Organ,
The Sound,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
Gregory Isaacs,
The Blues Magoos,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Derrick May,
Brand Nubian,
Bobby Byrd,
MDC,
Electric Light Orchestra,
Interpol,
Joey Negro,
Sun Ra,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Dennis Brown, Dennis Brown, Dennis Brown, Dennis Brown.
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.