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 Malawi and from Paris.
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 1964 to 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Copenhagen and Tehran.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Mumbai 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 The Fortunes to the dance 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 Amon Düül II. All the underground hits.
All The Chocolate Watch Band tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Aloha Tigers record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grunge 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 chamberlin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Kerrie Biddell record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a linndrum.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a chamberlin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Audionom,
The Doors,
ABC,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Don Cherry,
Metal Thangz,
Maurizio,
The Blues Magoos,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
The Sonics,
The Golliwogs,
Newcleus,
Roy Ayers,
Make Up,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
The Litter,
Echo & the Bunnymen,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
Bizarre Inc.,
Isaac Hayes,
Rhythm & Sound,
Alton Ellis,
Trumans Water,
Lakeside,
Harmonia,
The Trojans,
Kevin Saunderson,
Q65,
Thee Headcoats,
Groovy Waters,
The Human League,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
Fat Boys,
Excepter,
Gichy Dan,
The Buckinghams,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
Joe Smooth,
Radio Birdman,
AZ,
Kayak,
The Barracudas,
Barry Ungar,
The Sisters of Mercy,
Tubeway Army,
Nils Olav,
Strawberry Alarm Clock,
Nik Kershaw,
Reuben Wilson,
The Cure,
Cabaret Voltaire,
Selector Dub Narcotic,
The Moody Blues,
Howard Jones,
Mars,
X-102,
Thompson Twins,
Roy Ayers Ubiquity,
Bobby Hutcherson,
Sight & Sound,
Boogie Down Productions, Boogie Down Productions, Boogie Down Productions, Boogie Down Productions.
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.