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 Cyprus and from Madrid.
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 1961 to 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Calgary and Jakarta.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Lagos 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 1978 at the first Visage practice in a loft in London.
I was working on the synthesizer sounds with much patience.
I was there when Captain Beefheart 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 Cluster to the rock kids.
I played it at the Astoria.
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 Zapp. All the underground hits.
All Dead Boys tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Joensuu 1685 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 '60s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a 808 and a spring reverb and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Pantaleimon record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a harpsichord.
I hear that you and your band have sold your harpsichord and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Selector Dub Narcotic,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
L. Decosne,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
The Last Poets,
Cabaret Voltaire,
Sonny Sharrock,
Funky Four + One,
Fugazi,
Hasil Adkins,
The Cowsills,
Amon Düül,
Gichy Dan,
MC5,
Alison Limerick,
Kaleidoscope,
Steve Hackett,
The Durutti Column,
Barrington Levy,
Godley & Creme,
The Gun Club,
One Last Wish,
Mad Mike,
The Jesus and Mary Chain,
The Dave Clark Five,
Thinking Fellers Union Local 282,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
The Vogues,
Yusef Lateef,
Reagan Youth,
Mark Hollis,
Arthur Verocai,
Warsaw,
Joe Finger,
Deadbeat,
Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson,
the Association,
Suburban Knight,
Eurythmics,
Joensuu 1685,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
Jeff Mills,
The Invisible,
Spandau Ballet,
Leonard Cohen,
Roy Ayers Ubiquity,
Brass Construction,
Section 25,
The Smiths,
Louis and Bebe Barron,
Nils Olav,
The Buckinghams,
10cc,
The Standells,
UT,
Can,
Wasted Youth,
the Sonics,
Sun City Girls,
The Victims,
Lyres,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz, Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz, Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz, Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz.
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.