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 Sri Lanka and from Glasgow.
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 1967 to 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Calgary and Winnipeg.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Mumbai 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 1987 at the first Nirvana practice in a loft in Seattle.
I was working on the rhodes sounds with much patience.
I was there when Donald Fagen 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 Flipper to the techno 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 Five Americans. All the underground hits.
All Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Dark Day 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 '60s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying an organ and a chamberlin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Roxy Music record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a spring reverb.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
David Axelrod,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
Barbara Tucker,
Don Cherry,
The Fugs,
Thee Headcoats,
Ossler,
Ultra Naté,
Brand Nubian,
Sparks,
Rotary Connection,
Warsaw,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
Warren Ellis,
In Retrospect,
Chrome,
The Fire Engines,
The Index,
Kas Product,
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
Moss Icon,
Robert Görl,
The Smoke,
The Doors,
Smog,
Organ,
Robert Wyatt,
Sun Ra,
D'Angelo,
Grandmaster Flash,
Lindisfarne,
Roxy Music,
Harpers Bizarre,
Kango’s Stein Massive,
The Skatalites,
Wally Richardson,
Ten City,
Boz Scaggs,
DJ Sneak,
Sun City Girls,
Soul II Soul,
The Evens,
Mantronix,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
Flash Fearless,
The Divine Comedy,
Ponytail,
Barry Ungar,
Wings,
Pole,
Funkadelic,
Leonard Cohen,
Lalann,
The Gladiators,
Lightning Bolt,
Cymande,
Todd Rundgren,
U.S. Maple,
Section 25,
Blake Baxter, Blake Baxter, Blake Baxter, Blake Baxter.
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.