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 Bhutan and from Halifax.
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 1961 to 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Seoul and Cairo.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Seoul 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 1987 at the first Nirvana practice in a loft in Seattle.
I was working on the spring reverb sounds with much patience.
I was there when Lou Reed 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 Bootsy Collins to the rock kids.
I played it at the Astoria.
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 Nico. All the underground hits.
All The Cure tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Bootsy Collins record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grunge 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 guitar and a clarinet and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Josef K 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?
Joey Negro,
Roger Hodgson,
Nas,
Kayak,
the Bar-Kays,
Sad Lovers and Giants,
A Flock of Seagulls,
Rites of Spring,
The Skatalites,
EPMD,
KRS-One,
Arab on Radar,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Gang Gang Dance,
Y Pants,
Aloha Tigers,
Matthew Halsall,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Charles Mingus,
The Zeros,
Eddi Front,
The Motions,
Sister Nancy,
Johnny Osbourne,
Gang Starr,
Wings,
the Swans,
MC5,
Aural Exciters,
Marine Girls,
The Velvet Underground,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Mission of Burma,
It's A Beautiful Day,
Juan Atkins,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
Japan,
Eyeless In Gaza,
Easy Going,
T. Rex,
Franke,
Joyce Sims,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Thinking Fellers Union Local 282,
Mark Hollis,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
Al Stewart,
Cybotron,
Ultra Naté,
Darondo,
Prince Buster,
The Cowsills,
Sam Rivers,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
Kaleidoscope,
Anthony Braxton,
ABC,
Eurythmics,
Amazonics,
Crispy Ambulance,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
The Modern Lovers,
Negative Approach,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band, Manfred Mann's Earth Band, Manfred Mann's Earth Band, Manfred Mann's Earth Band.
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.