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 Samoa and from Woodstock.
But I was there.
I was there in 1978.
I was there at the first Visage 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 1966 to 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Toronto and Jakarta.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Delhi 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 linndrum sounds with much patience.
I was there when Robert Palmer 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 Country Joe & The Fish to the grunge kids.
I played it at the Crocodile.
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 The Fuzztones. All the underground hits.
All Fatback Band tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Zeros 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 '50s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a linndrum and an oboe and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Joe Smooth record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your marimba and bought an organ.
I hear that you and your band have sold your organ and bought a marimba.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Dual Sessions,
Babytalk,
The Jesus and Mary Chain,
U.S. Maple,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
ABC,
Scion,
Soul Sonic Force,
Steve Hackett,
Tomorrow,
The Buckinghams,
Television,
Electric Light Orchestra,
Swans,
Barrington Levy,
Kool Moe Dee,
Black Sheep,
Connie Case,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Soft Machine,
MDC,
Television Personalities,
Gang Green,
Traffic Nightmare,
The Seeds,
Morten Harket,
Scratch Acid,
Neil Young,
Isaac Hayes,
John Foxx,
Agent Orange,
Jerry's Kids,
The Searchers,
Fear,
Neu!,
Erykah Badu,
Ituana,
Country Joe & The Fish,
Kayak,
Essential Logic,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
Carl Craig,
Mandrill,
Man Parrish,
the Normal,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
Pere Ubu,
Laurel Aitken,
Radiohead,
Desert Stars,
Iggy Pop,
Piero Umiliani,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
Amazonics,
Bluetip,
DJ Sneak,
Grey Daturas,
Jacques Brel,
Slave,
Brass Construction,
The Modern Lovers,
Von Mondo, Von Mondo, Von Mondo, Von Mondo.
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.