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 Ukraine and from Beijing.
But I was there.
I was there in 1971.
I was there at the first Big Star show in Memphis.
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 1966 to 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Glasgow and Shanghai.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Manchester 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 1968 at the first Bowie practice in a loft in Bromley.
I was working on the theremin 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 Lalann to the rock kids.
I played it at the 40 Watt.
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 Masters at Work. All the underground hits.
All Unwound tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every David Axelrod record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal crunk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a sitar and a mellotron and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Juan Atkins record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought an arpeggiator.
I hear that you and your band have sold your arpeggiator and bought a spring reverb.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Panda Bear,
The Barracudas,
The Golliwogs,
Harmonia,
Nils Olav,
Eurythmics,
Camouflage,
David Axelrod,
Gil Scott Heron,
Art Ensemble Of Chicago,
Teenage Jesus and the Jerks,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
John Cale,
Boredoms,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
Andrew Hill,
Godley & Creme,
Quando Quango,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
Half Japanese,
The Cure,
Reagan Youth,
Marshall Jefferson,
The Misunderstood,
The Remains,
the Soft Cell,
Sixth Finger,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Das Ding,
The New Christs,
The Red Krayola,
Lalann,
Lucky Dragons,
D'Angelo,
The Buckinghams,
Chris Corsano,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Funkadelic,
Carl Craig,
Ice-T,
Heaven 17,
China Crisis,
Sun City Girls,
The Peanut Butter Conspiracy,
MC5,
Man Parrish,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
The Mighty Diamonds,
Agitation Free,
Pet Shop Boys,
Ponytail,
Suburban Knight,
Larry & the Blue Notes,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Mandrill,
Warren Ellis,
Clear Light,
The Slackers,
Johnny Osbourne,
Tom Boy,
This Heat, This Heat, This Heat, This Heat.
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.