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 Oman and from Hong Kong.
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 1964 to 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Delhi and Jakarta.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Winnipeg 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 Throbbing Gristle practice in a loft in London.
I was working on the oboe sounds with much patience.
I was there when Michael McDonald 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 Grandmaster Flash to the funk kids.
I played it at the Hacienda.
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 Avey Tare's Slasher Flicks. All the underground hits.
All Fad Gadget tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Terror Squad Feat. Camron 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 '70s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying an arpeggiator and a rhodes and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a kango's stein massive record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your organ and bought a spring reverb.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought an organ.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
AZ,
Minnie Riperton,
Susan Cadogan,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Crispy Ambulance,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
Wolf Eyes,
Excepter,
Blake Baxter,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
Red Lorry Yellow Lorry,
Average White Band,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Neu!,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
The Tremeloes,
Dark Day,
Livin' Joy,
The Index,
Ohio Players,
Jeff Lynne,
Ten City,
Bauhaus,
Minor Threat,
Hardrive,
Slave,
Deakin,
The Leaves,
Gang of Four,
Bobby Byrd,
Monolake,
Rites of Spring,
London Community Gospel Choir,
The Cowsills,
Yaz,
Lee Hazlewood,
Youth Brigade,
X-102,
Beasts of Bourbon,
The Mojo Men,
the Bar-Kays,
Swell Maps,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Shoche,
Girls At Our Best!,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Grauzone,
Stetsasonic,
Barbara Tucker,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
Niagra,
Tubeway Army,
Bobbi Humphrey,
Brand Nubian,
Unrelated Segments,
Animal Collective,
Mad Mike,
Charles Mingus, Charles Mingus, Charles Mingus, Charles Mingus.
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.