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 Brunei and from Madrid.
But I was there.
I was there in 1971.
I was there at the first Selda show in Istanbul.
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 1967 to 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Jakarta and Calgary.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school New York 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 synthesizer sounds with much patience.
I was there when Tom Verlaine 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 Rotary Connection to the crunk kids.
I played it at Trash.
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 Marc Almond. All the underground hits.
All Matthew Halsall tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every the Fania All-Stars 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 '80s.
I hear you're buying a 808 and a theremin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Silicon Teens record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a 808.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a mellotron.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Modern Lovers,
Amon Düül II,
Grey Daturas,
The Happenings,
JFA,
DJ Style,
Warsaw,
Livin' Joy,
Jacob Miller,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
James White and The Blacks,
Funky Four + One,
Grandmaster Flash,
Audionom,
Monolake,
FM Einheit,
Talk Talk,
Flipper,
Neu!,
Index,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
The Residents,
Colin Newman,
CMW,
Liliput,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
Lightning Bolt,
Shoche,
Crispy Ambulance,
Skaos,
Scrapy,
Scion,
Fatback Band,
The Busters,
Unwound,
The Sound,
cv313,
The Slackers,
Country Joe & The Fish,
Grauzone,
Gregory Isaacs,
Janne Schatter,
The Vogues,
Thee Headcoats,
Fluxion,
Cymande,
Peter and Kerry,
Cluster,
The Dave Clark Five,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
R.M.O.,
Can,
Babytalk,
June of 44,
Hardrive,
The Evens,
The Divine Comedy,
the Bar-Kays,
The Star Department,
Kas Product,
Tres Demented,
Ronan,
Von Mondo, Von Mondo, Von Mondo, Von Mondo.
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.