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 Equatorial Guinea and from Delhi.
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 1962 to 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Bologna and Delhi.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Portland 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 chamberlin sounds with much patience.
I was there when Nile Rodgers 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 Theoretical Girls to the rock kids.
I played it at the Roxy.
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 Reuben Wilson. All the underground hits.
All Qualms tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every OOIOO 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 '50s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a linndrum and an oboe and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Metal Thangz record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought an oboe.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Organ,
Be Bop Deluxe,
Fad Gadget,
Nation of Ulysses,
Public Image Ltd.,
Warsaw,
Ronnie Foster,
Bluetip,
The Star Department,
Symarip,
Anakelly,
The Slits,
Stiv Bators,
Alphaville,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
The Gories,
Heaven 17,
Jerry's Kids,
Cecil Taylor,
Brick,
The United States of America,
Alison Limerick,
Dual Sessions,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
Jacob Miller,
The Standells,
Barbara Tucker,
Amon Düül,
Infiniti,
Soft Cell,
The Leaves,
Oneida,
Jandek,
Ken Boothe,
Yusef Lateef,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
Neil Young,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Lalo Schifrin,
Bush Tetras,
Loose Ends,
Japan,
The Gladiators,
Lalann,
The Count Five,
CMW,
Agitation Free,
Oblivians,
Kings Of Tomorrow,
Unwound,
Rosa Yemen,
Ice-T,
Quadrant,
Easy Going,
Sugar Minott,
Shoche,
June Days,
Metal Thangz,
Lower 48,
Crime,
Fela Kuti,
Audionom, Audionom, Audionom, Audionom.
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.