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 Brazil and from Copenhagen.
But I was there.
I was there in 1968.
I was there at the first Can show in Cologne.
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 1967 to 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Jakarta and Winnipeg.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Manila 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 Magazine to the electroclash 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 Stetsasonic. All the underground hits.
All Tomorrow tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Hasil Adkins record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal funk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a snare and an organ and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Walker Brothers record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a mellotron.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Wings,
The Human League,
Davy DMX,
Agitation Free,
T. Rex,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
The Evens,
Nik Kershaw,
The Invisible,
the Soft Cell,
Jacob Miller,
Marmalade,
Ornette Coleman,
Kerri Chandler,
Supertramp,
Trumans Water,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Robert Görl,
The Durutti Column,
The Offenders,
Chris Corsano,
It's A Beautiful Day,
The Sonics,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
Interpol,
Avey Tare's Slasher Flicks,
Eric Copeland,
Nation of Ulysses,
Lightning Bolt,
Godley & Creme,
Kayak,
One Last Wish,
Camberwell Now,
The Sound,
Gabor Szabo,
Warsaw,
James Chance & The Contortions,
Marvin Gaye,
Boz Scaggs,
Anakelly,
Heaven 17,
China Crisis,
Average White Band,
Sam Rivers,
Thompson Twins,
The Mummies,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
Boogie Down Productions,
Tom Boy,
New York Dolls,
Zero Boys,
Organ,
Minnie Riperton,
Echo & the Bunnymen,
the Sonics,
Eurythmics,
Rosa Yemen,
The Angels of Light,
Lucky Dragons,
Thee Headcoats,
Infiniti,
Todd Rundgren, Todd Rundgren, Todd Rundgren, Todd Rundgren.
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.