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 El Salvador and from Paris.
But I was there.
I was there in 1984.
I was there at the first Arcadia show in London.
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 1965 to 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Manchester and Calgary.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Philadelphia 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 theremin 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 Michelle Simonal to the jazz 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 Judy Mowatt. All the underground hits.
All Barry Ungar tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every 8 Eyed Spy 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 '80s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a spring reverb and a mellotron and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Black Moon record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a theremin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a theremin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Dave Clark Five,
Average White Band,
Flamin' Groovies,
Johnny Osbourne,
Bobby Womack,
Icehouse,
The Doors,
Newcleus,
Loose Ends,
Radiohead,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Eve St. Jones,
The Offenders,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
Red Lorry Yellow Lorry,
Kayak,
Joyce Sims,
OOIOO,
The Evens,
Boogie Down Productions,
Angry Samoans,
Buzzcocks,
Schoolly D,
Juan Atkins,
Siglo XX,
Pharoah Sanders,
Model 500,
Eric Dolphy,
Roger Hodgson,
Bobby Byrd,
Lungfish,
EPMD,
Drive Like Jehu,
Blancmange,
KRS-One,
James Chance & The Contortions,
The Beau Brummels,
the Germs,
The Divine Comedy,
Max Romeo,
Eddi Front,
Lucky Dragons,
Second Layer,
Echo & the Bunnymen,
Louis and Bebe Barron,
Faraquet,
Mary Jane Girls,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
Adolescents,
Black Bananas,
Gabor Szabo,
The Angels of Light,
DJ Sneak,
Surgeon,
Traffic Nightmare,
Kango’s Stein Massive,
Hardrive,
Intrusion,
Unwound,
Toni Rubio,
Chris & Cosey,
Ronnie Foster, Ronnie Foster, Ronnie Foster, Ronnie Foster.
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.