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 Costa Rica and from Seoul.
But I was there.
I was there in .
I was there at the first Suicide show in New York.
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 1963 to 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Philadelphia and Mumbai.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Milan 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 sitar sounds with much patience.
I was there when Donald Fagen 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 Joyce Sims to the disco 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 Saints. All the underground hits.
All Curtis Mayfield tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Magma record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal disco 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 theremin and a 808 and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Glenn Branca 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?
Yellowson,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Make Up,
Charles Mingus,
Lee Hazlewood,
Cymande,
The United States of America,
The Moody Blues,
The Sonics,
Scott Walker,
Kevin Saunderson,
Josef K,
Kaleidoscope,
Yazoo,
Jimmy McGriff,
The Fire Engines,
Bush Tetras,
Letta Mbulu,
Andrew Hill,
The Saints,
The Star Department,
Reuben Wilson,
Sonic Youth,
Fear,
Eyeless In Gaza,
Yusef Lateef,
Tim Buckley,
Black Moon,
Q and Not U,
Barclay James Harvest,
Japan,
The Sisters of Mercy,
Basic Channel,
Jesper Dahlback,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Rakim,
Dawn Penn,
Television Personalities,
Darondo,
Average White Band,
Brass Construction,
Donny Hathaway,
Talk Talk,
Big Daddy Kane,
Byron Stingily,
Barrington Levy,
Deepchord,
the Human League,
Zapp,
Black Flag,
Country Teasers,
Johnny Osbourne,
The Selecter,
Joensuu 1685,
Jerry's Kids,
Funkadelic,
The Blues Magoos,
the Soft Cell,
Sex Pistols,
Wasted Youth,
Section 25,
The Monochrome Set, The Monochrome Set, The Monochrome Set, The Monochrome Set.
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.