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 Mexico and from Mexico City.
But I was there.
I was there in 1979.
I was there at the first Second Layer show in South London.
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 1965 to 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Johannesburg and Edmonton.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Beijing 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 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 Skaos to the grunge kids.
I played it at the Astoria.
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 The Martian. All the underground hits.
All Pulsallama tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Arthur Verocai 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 a harpsichord and an organ and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Y Pants record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a mellotron.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron 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?
Deepchord,
Essential Logic,
Malaria!,
The New Christs,
Isaac Hayes,
Lebanon Hanover,
Marcia Griffiths,
Barclay James Harvest,
Moebius,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines,
The Cure,
Bauhaus,
Hashim,
Roger Hodgson,
Second Layer,
James White and The Blacks,
Tres Demented,
Eric B and Rakim,
Albert Ayler,
Angry Samoans,
KRS-One,
The Golliwogs,
The Evens,
Porter Ricks,
The Cosmic Jokers,
Angels of Light & Akron/Family,
The Raincoats,
Terry Callier,
Quantec,
The Index,
K-Klass,
Crime,
Spandau Ballet,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
The Blackbyrds,
Gang Gang Dance,
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
Stereo Dub,
10cc,
Eli Mardock,
Anakelly,
Aloha Tigers,
Echo & the Bunnymen,
New York Dolls,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
F. McDonald,
Kaleidoscope,
Toni Rubio,
Eden Ahbez,
The Remains,
Warren Ellis,
Deadbeat,
Black Moon,
Johnny Clarke,
Alison Limerick,
Au Pairs,
The Barracudas,
John Cale,
The Litter,
Gong,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel, Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel, Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel, Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel.
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.