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 Japan and from Copenhagen.
But I was there.
I was there in 1983.
I was there at the first Lewis show in Vancouver.
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 1964 to 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Beijing and Toronto.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Stockholm 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 rhodes 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 Brick to the crunk 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 Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme. All the underground hits.
All Jandek tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Curtis Mayfield 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 '60s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a snare and a chamberlin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Marc Almond record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a linndrum.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a spring reverb.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Skaos,
Dark Day,
Quadrant,
Easy Going,
Kurtis Blow,
Pantaleimon,
Cabaret Voltaire,
The Vogues,
8 Eyed Spy,
Pagans,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Oppenheimer Analysis,
Saccharine Trust,
Josef K,
Quando Quango,
Country Teasers,
One Last Wish,
ABC,
Mary Jane Girls,
Thinking Fellers Union Local 282,
Drive Like Jehu,
Audionom,
Anthony Braxton,
Terry Callier,
Vladislav Delay,
Little Man,
David Bowie,
Red Lorry Yellow Lorry,
Faust,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
Bluetip,
Average White Band,
Bobby Womack,
Unwound,
Morten Harket,
Rakim,
Inner City,
Hardrive,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
The Grass Roots,
Big Daddy Kane,
Jacob Miller,
Moss Icon,
Steve Hackett,
Chris & Cosey,
Brass Construction,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
Avey Tare's Slasher Flicks,
The Red Krayola,
Idris Muhammad,
The Barracudas,
Minutemen,
The Blackbyrds,
Wings,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
The Peanut Butter Conspiracy,
Man Parrish,
Sun Ra,
ABBA,
Donny Hathaway,
Pole,
Supertramp,
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.