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 Nepal and from Lagos.
But I was there.
I was there in 2001.
I was there at the first Tiga show in Montreal.
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 1966 to 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Cairo and Paris.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Manila 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 808 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 Godley & Creme 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 Schoolly D. All the underground hits.
All Visage tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Excepter record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal dance 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 synthesizer and a harpsichord and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Birthday Party record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your clarinet and bought a linndrum.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a clarinet.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Piero Umiliani,
The Sound,
Lee Hazlewood,
Peter and Kerry,
Boogie Down Productions,
John Coltrane,
The J.B.'s,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Graham Central Station,
The Seeds,
The Music Machine,
Black Flag,
Ponytail,
Cabaret Voltaire,
Kerri Chandler,
KRS-One,
Tom Boy,
Jeff Mills,
Mad Mike,
Rhythm & Sound,
Icehouse,
Ludus,
Depeche Mode,
Glenn Branca,
The Searchers,
Flash Fearless,
Freddie Wadling,
Eric Dolphy,
Terrestrial Tones,
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
The Fall,
Black Sheep,
Inner City,
Erykah Badu,
Alton Ellis,
D'Angelo,
The Standells,
Liaisons Dangereuses,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
Essential Logic,
Blake Baxter,
Rotary Connection,
DJ Sneak,
It's A Beautiful Day,
Faust,
Sarah Menescal,
The Slackers,
Marc Almond,
Neu!,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
Red Lorry Yellow Lorry,
Letta Mbulu,
Eric B and Rakim,
Von Mondo,
Roxette,
Boredoms,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Yaz,
The Vogues,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
Dorothy Ashby,
Radiohead, Radiohead, Radiohead, Radiohead.
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.