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 Djibouti and from Edmonton.
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 1967 to 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Bremen and Bologna.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Tehran 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 harpsichord sounds with much patience.
I was there when Holger Czukay 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 Roy Ayers to the techno kids.
I played it at the Spitz.
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 Soulsonic Force. All the underground hits.
All cv313 tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Lonnie Liston Smith record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal punk 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 a rhodes and a synthesizer and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Jawbox record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a spring reverb.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a mellotron.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Janne Schatter,
Country Teasers,
The Birthday Party,
Susan Cadogan,
Deepchord,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
Dorothy Ashby,
Joe Smooth,
E-Dancer,
Easy Going,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
Cybotron,
Panda Bear,
Fat Boys,
Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines,
Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson,
Ash Ra Tempel,
The Moleskins,
Model 500,
The Flesh Eaters,
The Fugs,
The Cramps,
The Count Five,
Agent Orange,
Carl Craig,
Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme,
Accadde A,
Flipper,
Throbbing Gristle,
the Human League,
Tropical Tobacco,
Joey Negro,
Eric Dolphy,
Monks,
Avey Tare,
The Gun Club,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
Lightning Bolt,
Roy Ayers Ubiquity,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
DJ Style,
Pere Ubu,
Tubeway Army,
John Foxx,
Sound Behaviour,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Blake Baxter,
Nils Olav,
Circle Jerks,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
Peter and Kerry,
Kenny Larkin,
Wally Richardson,
The Five Americans,
Joensuu 1685,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
This Heat,
LL Cool J,
The Jesus and Mary Chain, The Jesus and Mary Chain, The Jesus and Mary Chain, The Jesus and Mary Chain.
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.