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 Benin and from Jakarta.
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 1969 to 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Columbus and Seoul.
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 1973 at the first Television practice in a loft in New York.
I was working on the oboe 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 Basic Channel to the grime 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 Circle Jerks. All the underground hits.
All Jeru the Damaja tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Echospace record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal techno hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a 808 and a guitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Kaleidoscope record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a mellotron.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron 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,
OOIOO,
Eric B and Rakim,
Pere Ubu,
FM Einheit,
X-Ray Spex,
Ossler,
Fifty Foot Hose,
Subhumans,
James White and The Blacks,
Sixth Finger,
Public Image Ltd.,
Cabaret Voltaire,
Bobbi Humphrey,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Moss Icon,
Shuggie Otis,
Lou Christie,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Laurel Aitken,
The Techniques,
Bush Tetras,
The Saints,
The Alarm Clocks,
Joey Negro,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
The Fuzztones,
The Buckinghams,
Dawn Penn,
Black Moon,
Reagan Youth,
Das Ding,
Khruangbin,
Grandmaster Flash,
Dorothy Ashby,
Rapeman,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
Isaac Hayes,
Camouflage,
Heaven 17,
The Slits,
Joy Division,
Bang on a Can All-Stars,
Nico,
Faust,
Zero Boys,
Joensuu 1685,
Rites of Spring,
Little Man,
Godley & Creme,
Supertramp,
The Gun Club,
Brand Nubian,
Blossom Toes,
Drive Like Jehu,
John Cale,
Essential Logic,
The Cramps,
Max Romeo,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
Ponytail,
Jeru the Damaja, Jeru the Damaja, Jeru the Damaja, Jeru the Damaja.
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.