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 Monaco and from Winnipeg.
But I was there.
I was there in .
I was there at the first Suicide show in New York.
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 1966 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Seoul and Philadelphia.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Copenhagen 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 güiro 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 Organ to the grime 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 Soul II Soul. All the underground hits.
All Organ tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Deakin 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 '80s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying an organ and a sitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Sonny Sharrock record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your güiro and bought a spring reverb.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a güiro.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Monolake,
Boogie Down Productions,
Max Romeo,
Cameo,
Amon Düül II,
Henry Cow,
Heaven 17,
Cybotron,
Nation of Ulysses,
Inner City,
Groovy Waters,
DJ Style,
Second Layer,
Bill Wells,
Main Source,
Rekid,
Icehouse,
Eden Ahbez,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
Leonard Cohen,
Kenny Larkin,
Patti Smith,
Al Stewart,
Unrelated Segments,
The Sisters of Mercy,
the Germs,
Country Joe & The Fish,
Technova,
Robert Hood,
Ponytail,
Lebanon Hanover,
Grey Daturas,
Quando Quango,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
Lindisfarne,
8 Eyed Spy,
Black Flag,
PIL,
The Monochrome Set,
The Barracudas,
K-Klass,
Traffic Nightmare,
Barrington Levy,
The Associates,
The Vogues,
Moby Grape,
The Seeds,
Khruangbin,
Drexciya,
D'Angelo,
Peter & Gordon,
KRS-One,
Junior Murvin,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
Howard Jones,
Hashim,
T. Rex,
Marc Romboy vs. Booka Shade,
Minor Threat,
Marcia Griffiths,
Pharoah Sanders,
Erasure, Erasure, Erasure, Erasure.
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.