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 Mali and from Tokyo.
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 1964 to 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Madrid and Houston.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Portland 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 1967 at the first Rodriguez practice in a loft in Detroit.
I was working on the guitar sounds with much patience.
I was there when David Bowie 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 the Sonics to the rock 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 Barracudas. All the underground hits.
All The Dirtbombs tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Man Eating Sloth record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal jazz hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying an arpeggiator and a theremin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Susan Cadogan record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your clarinet and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a clarinet.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
T.S.O.L.,
Thee Headcoats,
Sällskapet,
Barclay James Harvest,
Inner City,
AZ,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
Fad Gadget,
Lalann,
Stereo Dub,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
In Retrospect,
Negative Approach,
The Gladiators,
Stiv Bators,
Black Flag,
Harmonia,
The Neon Judgement,
Dual Sessions,
Scott Walker,
the Germs,
Godley & Creme,
Louis and Bebe Barron,
Judy Mowatt,
June Days,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
Wire,
Grandmaster Flash,
The Moleskins,
Mo-Dettes,
The Sonics,
Delon & Dalcan,
Kas Product,
Reagan Youth,
Derrick May,
Brick,
The Pop Group,
Albert Ayler,
Panda Bear,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
Buzzcocks,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
Second Layer,
Soul II Soul,
K-Klass,
The Walker Brothers,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
Public Enemy,
Leonard Cohen,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Brand Nubian,
David Bowie,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Q and Not U,
Tres Demented,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
The Real Kids,
The Music Machine, The Music Machine, The Music Machine, The Music Machine.
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.