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 Iceland and from Jakarta.
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 1963 to 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Accra and Toronto.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Halifax 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 Selda practice in a loft in Istanbul.
I was working on the spring reverb sounds with much patience.
I was there when Tom Verlaine 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 World's Most to the dance kids.
I played it at the 40 Watt.
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 Kas Product. All the underground hits.
All Chris & Cosey tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Happenings record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal funk 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 harpsichord and a spring reverb and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Moleskins record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a sitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Al Stewart,
Brick,
Roy Ayers,
Outsiders,
The Remains,
Freddie Wadling,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
Gang Green,
Big Daddy Kane,
Moss Icon,
The Victims,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
The Techniques,
Yellowson,
Japan,
Gabor Szabo,
D'Angelo,
The Mighty Diamonds,
Sunsets and Hearts,
Flash Fearless,
Schoolly D,
Archie Shepp,
Camouflage,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Spandau Ballet,
Jeff Mills,
Bang on a Can All-Stars,
Sällskapet,
Jacob Miller,
ABBA,
Donald Byrd,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
Deakin,
The Trojans,
The Toasters,
MDC,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Dual Sessions,
Blossom Toes,
Q and Not U,
Public Enemy,
Jimmy McGriff,
John Foxx,
Eric Copeland,
Aural Exciters,
DNA,
Robert Görl,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
Teenage Jesus and the Jerks,
The Neon Judgement,
Davy DMX,
Anakelly,
Kerri Chandler,
The Knickerbockers,
Barbara Tucker,
Aloha Tigers,
Flamin' Groovies,
Soul Sonic Force,
Nirvana,
The Gories,
The Human League,
Sound Behaviour,
Hashim, Hashim, Hashim, Hashim.
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.