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 Hungary and from Tokyo.
But I was there.
I was there in 2001.
I was there at the first Tiga show in Montreal.
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 1969 to 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Bologna and London.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school New York 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 clarinet sounds with much patience.
I was there when Michael McDonald 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 Index to the rock kids.
I played it at the Crocodile.
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 Zeros. All the underground hits.
All FM Einheit tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Michelle Simonal record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rock 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 an organ and a guitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Delon & Dalcan record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a sitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Neu!,
Max Romeo,
David Bowie,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
Lalo Schifrin,
Scratch Acid,
Drive Like Jehu,
Pylon,
Ronan,
Sam Rivers,
Sandy B,
Swans,
Anthony Braxton,
The Alarm Clocks,
Brand Nubian,
Johnny Osbourne,
Theoretical Girls,
MDC,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
Radiohead,
The Moleskins,
Todd Rundgren,
UT,
Erasure,
Aaron Thompson,
Whodini,
Oneida,
Arcadia,
Saccharine Trust,
The Stooges,
Vladislav Delay,
The Buckinghams,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
Crime,
Arab on Radar,
The Grass Roots,
Deadbeat,
Sparks,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
June Days,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
The Index,
Magma,
Pharoah Sanders,
Supertramp,
Jacques Brel,
The Shadows of Knight,
Eve St. Jones,
Nation of Ulysses,
Blancmange,
The Human League,
Matthew Halsall,
The United States of America,
Gang of Four,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
The Tremeloes,
The J.B.'s,
Electric Prunes,
Adolescents,
X-101,
Eric B and Rakim, Eric B and Rakim, Eric B and Rakim, Eric B and Rakim.
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.