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 Ivory Coast and from Spokane.
But I was there.
I was there in 1979.
I was there at the first Josef K show in Edinburgh.
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 1962 to 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Columbus and Seoul.
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 1971 at the first Big Star practice in a loft in Memphis.
I was working on the mellotron sounds with much patience.
I was there when Robert Palmer 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 Surgeon to the jazz 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 Iggy Pop. All the underground hits.
All Animal Collective tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Saccharine Trust 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 '50s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a marimba and a harpsichord and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Absolute Body Control record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a harpsichord.
I hear that you and your band have sold your harpsichord and bought a sitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Fortunes,
Public Image Ltd.,
Minny Pops,
Organ,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Susan Cadogan,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
The Gun Club,
Jeff Mills,
Kango’s Stein Massive,
Gong,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
Sly & The Family Stone,
Bad Manners,
Silicon Teens,
The Shadows of Knight,
Marshall Jefferson,
Bill Near,
Average White Band,
Marc Romboy vs. Booka Shade,
The Peanut Butter Conspiracy,
Sonic Youth,
Barrington Levy,
Eric Copeland,
Gerry Rafferty,
The Techniques,
Lightning Bolt,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Amazonics,
Nirvana,
Gang Gang Dance,
Groovy Waters,
Harpers Bizarre,
Piero Umiliani,
Nils Olav,
Kenny Larkin,
The Doobie Brothers,
Tres Demented,
Lyres,
Charles Mingus,
kango's stein massive,
Yusef Lateef,
Jeff Lynne,
The Divine Comedy,
Magma,
Reuben Wilson,
One Last Wish,
Curtis Mayfield,
Fugazi,
John Holt,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
Deepchord,
It's A Beautiful Day,
Neil Young,
Flamin' Groovies,
Rotary Connection,
Unwound,
Neu!,
Todd Terry,
Colin Newman,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Scan 7,
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band, The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band, The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band, The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band.
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.