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 Turkmenistan and from Seoul.
But I was there.
I was there in 1983.
I was there at the first Lewis show in Vancouver.
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 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Accra and New York.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Salvador 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 rhodes sounds with much patience.
I was there when Robert Palmer 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 The Sisters of Mercy to the crunk kids.
I played it at the Spitz.
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 Sly & The Family Stone. All the underground hits.
All Sonic Youth tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every New York Dolls record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal dance 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 sitar and a guitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Subhumans record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a güiro.
I hear that you and your band have sold your güiro and bought a spring reverb.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Country Teasers,
Desert Stars,
Ken Boothe,
The Gap Band,
Jacob Miller,
Television Personalities,
Hot Snakes,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
Smog,
Kurtis Blow,
Average White Band,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
The Smiths,
Malaria!,
Junior Murvin,
Gian Franco Pienzio,
Sparks,
Clear Light,
Hoover,
Gregory Isaacs,
Lou Christie,
Unwound,
Crash Course in Science,
CMW,
The Fortunes,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
Joey Negro,
Ultra Naté,
Derrick May,
Cymande,
Wolf Eyes,
Soft Cell,
Niagra,
Country Joe & The Fish,
Susan Cadogan,
Beasts of Bourbon,
Eddi Front,
K-Klass,
The Stooges,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Pulsallama,
The Fugs,
Scion,
Aloha Tigers,
Archie Shepp,
Yaz,
DNA,
Henry Cow,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
June Days,
L. Decosne,
Godley & Creme,
Jerry's Kids,
Kerrie Biddell,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Kool Moe Dee,
UT,
Glambeats Corp.,
Whodini,
Pierre Henry,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz, Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz, Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz, Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz.
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.