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 Belarus and from Edmonton.
But I was there.
I was there in 1983.
I was there at the first Lewis show in Vancouver.
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 1960 to 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Mexico City and Calgary.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Bologna 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 rhodes 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 Negative Approach to the crunk kids.
I played it at Cafe Wha.
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 Wally Richardson. All the underground hits.
All Soul II Soul tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Charles Mingus 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 '50s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a rhodes and an oboe and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Rotary Connection record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought an arpeggiator.
I hear that you and your band have sold your arpeggiator and bought a rhodes.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Gang Gang Dance,
Country Joe & The Fish,
Silicon Teens,
The Skatalites,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
June of 44,
Strawberry Alarm Clock,
Youth Brigade,
Cameo,
Rosa Yemen,
Anakelly,
Jimmy McGriff,
The Angels of Light,
The Pretty Things,
Black Sheep,
Sad Lovers and Giants,
Eden Ahbez,
D'Angelo,
David Bowie,
Louis and Bebe Barron,
The Move,
KRS-One,
Joy Division,
Roger Hodgson,
T. Rex,
Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft,
Scratch Acid,
Vladislav Delay,
Minnie Riperton,
Gerry Rafferty,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
Public Enemy,
Thee Headcoats,
Lungfish,
The Beau Brummels,
Buzzcocks,
Ludus,
Soul Sonic Force,
Stetsasonic,
Jacob Miller,
Lalo Schifrin,
JFA,
Duran Duran,
Simply Red,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
The J.B.'s,
Jawbox,
Wire,
UT,
Severed Heads,
Sight & Sound,
La Düsseldorf,
Yazoo,
Sparks,
The Residents,
Soft Cell,
Soul II Soul,
Radiohead, Radiohead, Radiohead, Radiohead.
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.