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 Niger and from Mexico City.
But I was there.
I was there in 1968.
I was there at the first Bowie show in Bromley.
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 1968 to 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Madrid and Mumbai.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Bologna 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 arpeggiator 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 Organ to the jazz kids.
I played it at the Troubador.
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 Derrick Morgan. All the underground hits.
All Neu! tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Infiniti 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 '80s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying an organ and a theremin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Moby Grape record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Sun Ra Arkestra,
the Human League,
DJ Style,
The Divine Comedy,
Dual Sessions,
The Mummies,
Kevin Saunderson,
Blake Baxter,
Eve St. Jones,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
The Dirtbombs,
Cheater Slicks,
Throbbing Gristle,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
Marshall Jefferson,
Bobbi Humphrey,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
Essential Logic,
Lungfish,
Rakim,
Derrick Morgan,
Los Fastidios,
The Kinks,
Lou Christie,
Funky Four + One,
The Gun Club,
Moebius,
Spoonie Gee,
Rosa Yemen,
The Alarm Clocks,
Ronnie Foster,
Soft Machine,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
Letta Mbulu,
Morten Harket,
Frankie Knuckles,
Anakelly,
Au Pairs,
Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme,
Animal Collective,
Sonic Youth,
Flipper,
Eric Copeland,
Underground Resistance,
Flash Fearless,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Ossler,
Neu!,
X-102,
Q65,
ABC,
Barry Ungar,
X-Ray Spex,
Kas Product,
Warsaw,
DJ Sneak,
James Chance & The Contortions,
Cecil Taylor,
Jacques Brel,
Suicide, Suicide, Suicide, Suicide.
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.