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 Turkey and from Beijing.
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 1968 to 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Tehran and Stockholm.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school London 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 1976 at the first Buzzcocks practice in a loft in Bolton.
I was working on the theremin 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 Isaac Hayes to the grunge 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 Skarface. All the underground hits.
All Whodini tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Malaria! record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal disco hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a harpsichord and a chamberlin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a mellotron.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a theremin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Unrelated Segments,
Janne Schatter,
Leonard Cohen,
Harry Pussy,
Gichy Dan,
The J.B.'s,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
Spoonie Gee,
Cameo,
Porter Ricks,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
EPMD,
Television Personalities,
The Young Rascals,
The Stooges,
David Axelrod,
Kango’s Stein Massive,
The Detroit Cobras,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Gang Green,
The Fall,
Junior Murvin,
Oblivians,
The Kinks,
DNA,
The Electric Prunes,
The Moody Blues,
Roy Ayers,
Echo & the Bunnymen,
Adolescents,
Bizarre Inc.,
Skaos,
Funkadelic,
Yusef Lateef,
Royal Trux,
Fluxion,
Pantaleimon,
Soft Machine,
Flamin' Groovies,
Stereo Dub,
Mad Mike,
Boogie Down Productions,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
X-101,
Hot Snakes,
Graham Central Station,
The Cure,
Can,
Eric Dolphy,
Ultra Naté,
Echospace,
Joy Division,
James Chance & The Contortions,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
the Fania All-Stars,
The Blackbyrds,
The Dead C,
Albert Ayler,
Marmalade,
Fugazi,
Richard Hell and the Voidoids,
Moby Grape,
Youth Brigade, Youth Brigade, Youth Brigade, Youth Brigade.
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.