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 Iran and from Winnipeg.
But I was there.
I was there in 1971.
I was there at the first Neu! show in Düsseldorf.
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 1967 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in New York and Beijing.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Hong Kong 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 organ 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 Busters to the electroclash kids.
I played it at CBGB's.
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 Oneida. All the underground hits.
All Siouxsie and the Banshees tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Erasure 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 '60s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a harpsichord and a güiro and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Procol Harum record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought an organ.
I hear that you and your band have sold your organ and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Young Rascals,
D'Angelo,
Roxette,
Black Bananas,
Second Layer,
The Slackers,
Robert Görl,
Buzzcocks,
Echospace,
Tim Buckley,
Bobbi Humphrey,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
Rapeman,
Warsaw,
Mandrill,
Anthony Braxton,
Infiniti,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Drive Like Jehu,
Oppenheimer Analysis,
The Cosmic Jokers,
Zapp,
The Walker Brothers,
Lucky Dragons,
Swell Maps,
Rufus Thomas,
Barry Ungar,
Kango’s Stein Massive,
Eli Mardock,
Public Enemy,
Sällskapet,
the Bar-Kays,
Carl Craig,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
U.S. Maple,
Das Ding,
Country Teasers,
Quando Quango,
Alison Limerick,
Chris Corsano,
Maleditus Sound,
Pet Shop Boys,
The Men They Couldn't Hang,
Byron Stingily,
Art Ensemble Of Chicago,
Iggy Pop,
Kings Of Tomorrow,
Public Image Ltd.,
Marvin Gaye,
Barbara Tucker,
The Fire Engines,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
New Age Steppers,
Drexciya,
Youth Brigade,
Peter & Gordon,
The Monochrome Set,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
The Residents,
the Swans,
Marshall Jefferson,
Loose Ends,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
Scrapy, Scrapy, Scrapy, Scrapy.
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.