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 St Kitts & Nevis and from Woodstock.
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 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Tehran and Stockholm.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Johannesburg 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 snare 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 Patti Smith to the rock kids.
I played it at the 40 Watt.
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 Pharoah Sanders. All the underground hits.
All Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Tremeloes record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal crunk 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 oboe and a spring reverb and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Audionom record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought an organ.
I hear that you and your band have sold your organ and bought a 808.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Average White Band,
cv313,
Chris Corsano,
Make Up,
Kevin Saunderson,
Magma,
Flipper,
Sällskapet,
Sad Lovers and Giants,
Bobby Sherman,
Blancmange,
The Blues Magoos,
Skaos,
Negative Approach,
New Order,
Malaria!,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
Black Sheep,
Marine Girls,
Animal Collective,
Gabor Szabo,
Albert Ayler,
Oppenheimer Analysis,
Television Personalities,
The Mojo Men,
The Toasters,
Gregory Isaacs,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
Derrick May,
Metal Thangz,
The Barracudas,
Gastr Del Sol,
Bad Manners,
Index,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
Godley & Creme,
The Neon Judgement,
Panda Bear,
Visage,
Lucky Dragons,
Slick Rick,
Bluetip,
The Fugs,
OOIOO,
Althea and Donna,
Cecil Taylor,
Rites of Spring,
This Heat,
Ice-T,
Yusef Lateef,
Essential Logic,
Reuben Wilson,
Lower 48,
June Days,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson,
Rotary Connection,
Buzzcocks,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
Chris & Cosey,
Frankie Knuckles,
Bobby Hutcherson,
Khruangbin,
Hashim,
Archie Shepp, Archie Shepp, Archie Shepp, Archie Shepp.
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.