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 Bangladesh and from Beijing.
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 Madrid and Lille.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Bremen 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 spring reverb sounds with much patience.
I was there when Nile Rodgers 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 La Düsseldorf to the techno kids.
I played it at the Hacienda.
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 X-101. All the underground hits.
All Qualms tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every David Bowie record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal techno hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a linndrum and an oboe and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Flamin' Groovies record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a rhodes.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Scion,
Metal Thangz,
The Dirtbombs,
Drexciya,
The Birthday Party,
Lungfish,
One Last Wish,
Terrestrial Tones,
R.M.O.,
Mo-Dettes,
The Evens,
Laurel Aitken,
Minnie Riperton,
Pagans,
Siglo XX,
Kenny Larkin,
Altered Images,
The Mummies,
Erasure,
Fatback Band,
Fad Gadget,
Yusef Lateef,
U.S. Maple,
Nils Olav,
Ornette Coleman,
Tropical Tobacco,
Fugazi,
The Dave Clark Five,
Freddie Wadling,
Tears for Fears,
Toni Rubio,
Electric Prunes,
Pantytec,
The Martian,
John Foxx,
Black Moon,
PIL,
The Happenings,
Essential Logic,
Lindisfarne,
Tres Demented,
Stiv Bators,
Niagra,
Boredoms,
Big Daddy Kane,
Larry & the Blue Notes,
Youth Brigade,
The Offenders,
Curtis Mayfield,
Eve St. Jones,
Connie Case,
Richard Hell and the Voidoids,
Crispian St. Peters,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Moebius,
Peter & Gordon,
Scan 7,
Ludus,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
Bush Tetras,
Simply Red,
Graham Central Station,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo, Kool G Rap & DJ Polo, Kool G Rap & DJ Polo, Kool G Rap & DJ Polo.
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.