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 China and from Seoul.
But I was there.
I was there in 1970.
I was there at the first Onyeabor show in Enugu.
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 1962 to 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Edmonton and Houston.
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 harpsichord sounds with much patience.
I was there when Robert Palmer 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 Altered Images to the grunge kids.
I played it at the Roxy.
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 Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel. All the underground hits.
All Alison Limerick tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Gregory Isaacs 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 '70s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a snare and a linndrum and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Barry Ungar record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a linndrum.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a mellotron.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Excepter,
Icehouse,
La Düsseldorf,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Glambeats Corp.,
Young Marble Giants,
Pharoah Sanders,
Grandmaster Flash,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
Alison Limerick,
Stiv Bators,
Eric Copeland,
Slick Rick,
The United States of America,
The Kinks,
DNA,
John Cale,
Country Teasers,
Underground Resistance,
Radiohead,
Delon & Dalcan,
Freddie Wadling,
Television,
Traffic Nightmare,
Masters at Work,
China Crisis,
U.S. Maple,
UT,
Barry Ungar,
Magazine,
The Pop Group,
Eric Dolphy,
Skaos,
Essential Logic,
The Leaves,
The Mighty Diamonds,
DJ Sneak,
Lee Hazlewood,
Sixth Finger,
Sad Lovers and Giants,
Easy Going,
Big Daddy Kane,
Amazonics,
Public Enemy,
R.M.O.,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
Organ,
Fatback Band,
Malaria!,
The Index,
Bizarre Inc.,
Swell Maps,
The Detroit Cobras,
Robert Görl,
Eyeless In Gaza,
The Blues Magoos,
The Remains,
Inner City,
Ponytail,
Bootsy's Rubber Band, Bootsy's Rubber Band, Bootsy's Rubber Band, Bootsy's Rubber 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.