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 Netherlands and from Manchester.
But I was there.
I was there in 1971.
I was there at the first Neu! show in Düsseldorf.
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 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Lagos and Copenhagen.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Bologna 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 chamberlin 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 Erasure to the crunk 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 The Blackbyrds. All the underground hits.
All Procol Harum tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Avey Tare 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 '60s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying an oboe and an organ and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Jesus and Mary Chain record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought an oboe.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe 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?
Basic Channel,
Desert Stars,
Negative Approach,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Barry Ungar,
Mandrill,
K-Klass,
Junior Murvin,
Blossom Toes,
Piero Umiliani,
Goldenarms,
Pussy Galore,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Juan Atkins,
Kayak,
Dead Boys,
The Grass Roots,
Sonny Sharrock,
Smog,
Grauzone,
Silicon Teens,
Harpers Bizarre,
Underground Resistance,
Sällskapet,
Japan,
Barclay James Harvest,
Joey Negro,
Bobby Womack,
Monks,
Glenn Branca,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
Dave Gahan,
Suicide,
Oblivians,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
Jeff Mills,
Second Layer,
World's Most,
The Shadows of Knight,
Trumans Water,
the Slits,
Kings Of Tomorrow,
Judy Mowatt,
FM Einheit,
Sunsets and Hearts,
Sonic Youth,
Audionom,
The Zeros,
Alison Limerick,
Neil Young,
Gastr Del Sol,
The Index,
New Order,
Louis and Bebe Barron,
LL Cool J,
Idris Muhammad,
The Monochrome Set,
Lee Hazlewood,
Lower 48,
Aural Exciters,
The Sonics,
The Litter,
Marine Girls,
The Motions, The Motions, The Motions, The Motions.
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.