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 United Kingdom and from Spokane.
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 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in London and Sao Paulo.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Portland 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 Donald Fagen 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 Flesh Eaters to the dance 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 Hardrive. All the underground hits.
All Arab on Radar tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Pierre Henry 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 an organ and a sitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Lalann record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your harpsichord and bought a theremin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a harpsichord.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Altered Images,
Neil Young,
Black Flag,
Au Pairs,
The Evens,
Isaac Hayes,
Fugazi,
John Cale,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Average White Band,
Kevin Saunderson,
Rotary Connection,
Josef K,
Kango’s Stein Massive,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
Robert Wyatt,
Skarface,
Gabor Szabo,
Pylon,
The Fall,
Kerrie Biddell,
Ossler,
The Buckinghams,
Warren Ellis,
Infiniti,
Yusef Lateef,
Alice Coltrane,
Scion,
Laurel Aitken,
Stiv Bators,
Pussy Galore,
LL Cool J,
Television,
The Barracudas,
Von Mondo,
Barbara Tucker,
Jerry Gold Smith,
Monks,
Jimmy McGriff,
A Flock of Seagulls,
Bill Wells,
Sam Rivers,
Magazine,
Throbbing Gristle,
Red Lorry Yellow Lorry,
Nico,
Scientists,
Eric Dolphy,
the Slits,
Bill Near,
MC5,
Intrusion,
Harmonia,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Max Romeo,
Gastr Del Sol,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
cv313,
Eyeless In Gaza,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
Archie Shepp,
Hashim,
Drive Like Jehu, Drive Like Jehu, Drive Like Jehu, Drive Like Jehu.
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.