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 Argentina and from Cairo.
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 1960 to 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Columbus and Columbus.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Sao Paulo 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 1965 at the first Beefheart practice in a loft in Lancaster.
I was working on the rhodes 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 Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel to the techno kids.
I played it at Trash.
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 Chocolate Watch Band. All the underground hits.
All Trumans Water tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Oblivians record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal punk 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 a marimba and a synthesizer and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Jeff Mills record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a spring reverb.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Schoolly D,
Roger Hodgson,
Pet Shop Boys,
Warren Ellis,
The Vogues,
Sam Rivers,
Rapeman,
Godley & Creme,
Cheater Slicks,
Scientists,
Sandy B,
Aural Exciters,
Eric Copeland,
Joensuu 1685,
The Modern Lovers,
Aswad,
Alton Ellis,
The Cramps,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
Au Pairs,
The Peanut Butter Conspiracy,
FM Einheit,
the Sonics,
Robert Hood,
Mandrill,
Jimmy McGriff,
Heaven 17,
Al Stewart,
Josef K,
K-Klass,
Inner City,
Curtis Mayfield,
Neu!,
Little Man,
Liliput,
the Slits,
Kurtis Blow,
Magazine,
Sunsets and Hearts,
Amazonics,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
Visage,
The Grass Roots,
Nirvana,
This Heat,
Rosa Yemen,
Yazoo,
Hot Snakes,
E-Dancer,
ABC,
Wings,
The Misunderstood,
The Sonics,
Sarah Menescal,
Jerry's Kids,
Leonard Cohen,
The Blues Magoos,
Rod Modell,
Young Marble Giants,
Big Daddy Kane,
Stiv Bators, Stiv Bators, Stiv Bators, Stiv Bators.
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.