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 Belarus and from Salvador.
But I was there.
I was there in 1967.
I was there at the first Rodriguez show in Detroit.
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 1969 to 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Taipei and Salvador.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Lyon 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 organ sounds with much patience.
I was there when Tom Verlaine 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 Barbara Tucker to the grime 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 China Crisis. All the underground hits.
All KRS-One tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal electroclash hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying an organ and a güiro and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Erykah Badu record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your harpsichord and bought an arpeggiator.
I hear that you and your band have sold your arpeggiator and bought a harpsichord.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Groovy Waters,
Soul Sonic Force,
Boz Scaggs,
Supertramp,
Harmonia,
Siglo XX,
Deepchord,
Joensuu 1685,
Ituana,
Inner City,
Quadrant,
Cabaret Voltaire,
Oneida,
Aloha Tigers,
Fatback Band,
Godley & Creme,
Accadde A,
Steve Hackett,
Royal Trux,
Bootsy Collins,
Rites of Spring,
Kenny Larkin,
Index,
The Searchers,
Sexual Harrassment,
Public Enemy,
Andrew Hill,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
Todd Terry,
K-Klass,
Silicon Teens,
June of 44,
Dark Day,
Crime,
Sex Pistols,
The United States of America,
Q and Not U,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
the Slits,
Flamin' Groovies,
The Fall,
The Mummies,
Agent Orange,
Ultravox,
Negative Approach,
F. McDonald,
Panda Bear,
Ash Ra Tempel,
Girls At Our Best!,
Lalann,
AZ,
Ohio Players,
Suicide,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Charles Mingus,
Avey Tare,
The Monochrome Set, The Monochrome Set, The Monochrome Set, The Monochrome Set.
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.