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 Iraq and from Delhi.
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 1966 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Madrid and Cairo.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Tokyo 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 1983 at the first Lewis practice in a loft in Vancouver.
I was working on the arpeggiator sounds with much patience.
I was there when Lou Reed 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 Can to the rap 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 the Normal. All the underground hits.
All The Moleskins tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Patti Smith 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 '70s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a snare and a guitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a London Community Gospel Choir record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a güiro.
I hear that you and your band have sold your güiro and bought a linndrum.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Television Personalities,
James Chance & The Contortions,
Amon Düül II,
Bobby Sherman,
Alphaville,
Avey Tare,
In Retrospect,
Barclay James Harvest,
Sad Lovers and Giants,
Joe Smooth,
Ash Ra Tempel,
Swans,
Fear,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
Kenny Larkin,
Mantronix,
Brand Nubian,
Gil Scott Heron,
Heaven 17,
Subhumans,
Yaz,
Chris & Cosey,
Deakin,
Black Bananas,
Toni Rubio,
Ralphi Rosario,
The Electric Prunes,
Kurtis Blow,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
cv313,
LL Cool J,
X-101,
Freddie Wadling,
Davy DMX,
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark,
Bob Dylan,
Fatback Band,
Saccharine Trust,
Slick Rick,
Bill Wells,
Kaleidoscope,
Y Pants,
Terry Callier,
Jesper Dahlback,
Television,
Sly & The Family Stone,
Marine Girls,
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
Tres Demented,
Bobbi Humphrey,
Faust,
The Five Americans,
Marcia Griffiths,
Funkadelic,
Pantaleimon,
Scan 7,
Stereo Dub,
Glambeats Corp.,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Mad Mike,
U.S. Maple,
Roy Ayers Ubiquity,
Marmalade,
E-Dancer, E-Dancer, E-Dancer, E-Dancer.
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.