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 the UAE and from Shanghai.
But I was there.
I was there in 1976.
I was there at the first Feelies show in Haledon.
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 1965 to 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Mexico City and Mexico City.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Houston 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 sitar 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 Boz Scaggs to the disco kids.
I played it at Trash.
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 Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan. All the underground hits.
All Soulsonic Force tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Minnie Riperton record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal electroclash 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 an arpeggiator and a marimba and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Clear Light record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your arpeggiator and bought a theremin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought an arpeggiator.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
kango's stein massive,
Nils Olav,
Mark Hollis,
Jerry Gold Smith,
Agitation Free,
the Soft Cell,
David Axelrod,
Soft Machine,
Fifty Foot Hose,
Black Sheep,
Kool Moe Dee,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
Ituana,
PIL,
Oppenheimer Analysis,
KRS-One,
Johnny Clarke,
Surgeon,
Mission of Burma,
Jandek,
Minnie Riperton,
Patti Smith,
Eden Ahbez,
B.T. Express,
Jeru the Damaja,
Lalann,
Tom Boy,
Funky Four + One,
Zapp,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Intrusion,
The Beau Brummels,
Minny Pops,
The Divine Comedy,
The Slits,
James Chance & The Contortions,
Monolake,
Dave Gahan,
Von Mondo,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
Ash Ra Tempel,
Procol Harum,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
Depeche Mode,
Idris Muhammad,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Animal Collective,
Vladislav Delay,
Girls At Our Best!,
Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
T.S.O.L.,
Crispian St. Peters,
Ronnie Foster,
The Tremeloes,
Rakim,
Matthew Bourne,
X-101,
Zero Boys,
Maleditus Sound,
Black Pus,
Suburban Knight, Suburban Knight, Suburban Knight, Suburban Knight.
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.