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 Bahamas and from Seoul.
But I was there.
I was there in 1970.
I was there at the first Onyeabor show in Enugu.
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 Columbus and Milan.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Copenhagen 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 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 Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson to the rock kids.
I played it at Cafe Wha.
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 Mandrill. All the underground hits.
All The Selecter tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Throbbing Gristle record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal punk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a rhodes and a harpsichord and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Victims record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a 808.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought an oboe.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Yellowson,
The Cramps,
Scientists,
Kerri Chandler,
The Happenings,
Television Personalities,
Jeff Lynne,
Terrestrial Tones,
Echo & the Bunnymen,
Procol Harum,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
ABC,
the Association,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Stockholm Monsters,
Janne Schatter,
Technova,
Cabaret Voltaire,
the Fania All-Stars,
Intrusion,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
Hardrive,
Depeche Mode,
Bootsy's Rubber Band,
Stereo Dub,
Ralphi Rosario,
Robert Wyatt,
Isaac Hayes,
Television,
Dennis Brown,
The Toasters,
Tears for Fears,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
Quando Quango,
Sixth Finger,
Massinfluence,
The Skatalites,
Silicon Teens,
Max Romeo,
Danielle Patucci,
Amon Düül II,
Todd Rundgren,
Icehouse,
The Smiths,
JFA,
The Misunderstood,
Fear,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
The Tremeloes,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Kayak,
The Victims,
Lindisfarne,
Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme,
Chrome,
the Soft Cell,
James White and The Blacks,
Sugar Minott,
Heaven 17,
Laurel Aitken,
T.S.O.L., T.S.O.L., T.S.O.L., T.S.O.L..
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.