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 Ireland and from Edmonton.
But I was there.
I was there in 1979.
I was there at the first Second Layer show in South London.
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 1965 to 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Toronto and Philadelphia.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Tehran 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 linndrum 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 Lalann to the dance 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 Rahsaan Roland Kirk. All the underground hits.
All DJ Style tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Neil Young record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal electroclash hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a rhodes and a snare and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Stooges record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a 808.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Glambeats Corp.,
OOIOO,
Sixth Finger,
Byron Stingily,
The Busters,
Black Sheep,
The Walker Brothers,
The Monks,
Skriet,
Erasure,
The Martian,
Marmalade,
Moebius,
Stereo Dub,
Lebanon Hanover,
Tom Boy,
Country Joe & The Fish,
Todd Rundgren,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Rites of Spring,
Sandy B,
Jandek,
James Chance & The Contortions,
Larry & the Blue Notes,
Gang Gang Dance,
Ponytail,
Marine Girls,
Siglo XX,
Dave Gahan,
Lyres,
The Electric Prunes,
Isaac Hayes,
Cybotron,
Juan Atkins,
The Pretty Things,
Curtis Mayfield,
Pet Shop Boys,
The Slackers,
Roger Hodgson,
Derrick May,
Harry Pussy,
Electric Prunes,
Derrick Morgan,
Magazine,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
John Foxx,
Avey Tare's Slasher Flicks,
Blossom Toes,
Goldenarms,
Chrome,
Eric B and Rakim,
Danielle Patucci,
Lightning Bolt,
Half Japanese,
Q65,
The Blackbyrds,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Motorama,
Scion,
Lou Reed,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk, Rahsaan Roland Kirk, Rahsaan Roland Kirk, Rahsaan Roland Kirk.
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.