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 Malawi and from Winnipeg.
But I was there.
I was there in .
I was there at the first Suicide show in New York.
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 1969 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in New York and Taipei.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Mexico City 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 clarinet 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 Iggy Pop to the grunge 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 Kool Moe Dee. All the underground hits.
All Soulsonic Force tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Gregory Isaacs record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rock 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 linndrum and a snare and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a 808.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Sound Behaviour,
Morten Harket,
Lower 48,
Bang On A Can,
The Gap Band,
Skriet,
Guru Guru,
Stockholm Monsters,
Ossler,
E-Dancer,
Black Sheep,
Spandau Ballet,
Cecil Taylor,
Harry Pussy,
Kas Product,
The Slits,
The Alarm Clocks,
Oppenheimer Analysis,
Lalann,
Ponytail,
Eddi Front,
Pierre Henry,
Erykah Badu,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Buzzcocks,
Excepter,
PIL,
The Offenders,
Hasil Adkins,
Shoche,
Bill Near,
The Velvet Underground,
Kevin Saunderson,
Toni Rubio,
Sam Rivers,
Echospace,
The Happenings,
Outsiders,
the Fania All-Stars,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
Boogie Down Productions,
Tubeway Army,
DJ Style,
Mad Mike,
The Skatalites,
David McCallum,
Second Layer,
Brothers Johnson,
Godley & Creme,
Model 500,
Matthew Bourne,
Scratch Acid,
Juan Atkins,
Khruangbin,
The Invisible,
London Community Gospel Choir,
Erasure,
UT,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
The Busters, The Busters, The Busters, The Busters.
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.