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 Uzbekistan and from Manchester.
But I was there.
I was there in 1971.
I was there at the first Big Star show in Memphis.
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 1963 to 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Copenhagen and Winnipeg.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Delhi 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 1975 at the first Throbbing Gristle practice in a loft in London.
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 Ken Boothe 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 Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience. All the underground hits.
All Lee Hazlewood tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Rotary Connection record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grime hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a chamberlin and a theremin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Residents record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a linndrum.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a 808.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
It's A Beautiful Day,
Sonic Youth,
In Retrospect,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
Thinking Fellers Union Local 282,
Country Joe & The Fish,
The Barracudas,
Oneida,
Warren Ellis,
Wasted Youth,
Los Fastidios,
Ludus,
Harmonia,
Index,
T. Rex,
MC5,
The Index,
The Motions,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
Cecil Taylor,
Sixth Finger,
Pantytec,
Main Source,
Bluetip,
Scrapy,
The Fall,
the Germs,
Rotary Connection,
Bobby Womack,
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
The Cowsills,
Au Pairs,
Hoover,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
Mad Mike,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
Lightning Bolt,
Brass Construction,
Loose Ends,
Country Teasers,
Radio Birdman,
Roger Hodgson,
The Fire Engines,
Bobby Sherman,
Matthew Bourne,
Rod Modell,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
The Young Rascals,
Black Pus,
Delta 5,
Thompson Twins,
Moss Icon,
Minny Pops,
Strawberry Alarm Clock,
The Five Americans,
Lungfish,
Crime,
The Doobie Brothers,
Qualms, Qualms, Qualms, Qualms.
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.