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 Barbados and from Paris.
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 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Jakarta and Sao Paulo.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Houston 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 1975 at the first Ubu practice in a loft in Cleveland.
I was working on the synthesizer sounds with much patience.
I was there when Nile Rodgers 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 The Divine Comedy to the grime kids.
I played it at the Spitz.
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 Technova. All the underground hits.
All Lalann tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every It's A Beautiful Day record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grime 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 harpsichord and a mellotron and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Tim Buckley record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your güiro and bought a rhodes.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a güiro.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Eve St. Jones,
Liliput,
Minny Pops,
The Fire Engines,
Pantaleimon,
John Lydon,
Crooked Eye,
Eric Dolphy,
Outsiders,
JFA,
Avey Tare,
Iggy Pop,
The Sisters of Mercy,
It's A Beautiful Day,
Blancmange,
Man Eating Sloth,
Alice Coltrane,
Bobby Womack,
Skriet,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
Bobby Hutcherson,
K-Klass,
Scientists,
Severed Heads,
The Shadows of Knight,
Black Bananas,
Hoover,
Black Flag,
Deadbeat,
Derrick May,
Cameo,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Zero Boys,
Alphaville,
Ossler,
Japan,
Ohio Players,
Section 25,
The Remains,
Cluster,
Heaven 17,
Warsaw,
Erasure,
Q65,
Fad Gadget,
Ronan,
Curtis Mayfield,
Crash Course in Science,
Bronski Beat,
Chris & Cosey,
Althea and Donna,
Circle Jerks,
Grauzone,
Q and Not U,
Marc Almond,
The Dirtbombs,
Ituana,
Yellowson,
Lebanon Hanover,
The Human League,
Scan 7,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell, N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell, N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell, N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell.
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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.