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 Turkey and from Delhi.
But I was there.
I was there in 1962.
I was there at the first Guess Who show in Winnipeg.
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 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Lagos and Hong Kong.
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 guitar sounds with much patience.
I was there when Nile Rodgers 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 Donald Byrd to the disco kids.
I played it at the Hacienda.
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 Gories. All the underground hits.
All Ronan tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Kerri Chandler 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 '90s.
I hear you're buying an oboe and a sitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Scott Walker + Sunn O))) record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a harpsichord.
I hear that you and your band have sold your harpsichord and bought a spring reverb.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Oppenheimer Analysis,
Television Personalities,
Half Japanese,
Dennis Brown,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
The Fire Engines,
Subhumans,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
Gastr Del Sol,
the Association,
The Zeros,
The Move,
Youth Brigade,
Arthur Verocai,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
Popol Vuh,
Average White Band,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
Barrington Levy,
Black Flag,
Gong,
Grey Daturas,
The Residents,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
The Neon Judgement,
Siglo XX,
Derrick Morgan,
Black Bananas,
The Vogues,
Rakim,
Panda Bear,
Marc Almond,
The Slackers,
Procol Harum,
Fela Kuti,
Bill Near,
Warsaw,
The Saints,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
John Coltrane,
Bang on a Can All-Stars,
Scrapy,
The United States of America,
DJ Sneak,
Roger Hodgson,
Icehouse,
JFA,
Minnie Riperton,
K-Klass,
The Techniques,
Pierre Henry,
Robert Wyatt,
The Mighty Diamonds,
Unrelated Segments,
Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme,
The Jesus and Mary Chain,
Shoche,
Josef K,
Peter & Gordon, Peter & Gordon, Peter & Gordon, Peter & Gordon.
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.