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 Ireland and from Copenhagen.
But I was there.
I was there in 1977.
I was there at the first Zapp show in Hamilton.
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 Toronto and Houston.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Glasgow 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 clarinet sounds with much patience.
I was there when Tom Verlaine 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 Terrestrial Tones to the grunge kids.
I played it at CBGB's.
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 Index. All the underground hits.
All Jawbox tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Ituana 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 sitar and a linndrum and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Tres Demented record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a mellotron.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
The Golliwogs,
The Happenings,
Grandmaster Flash,
Harpers Bizarre,
DJ Style,
Joe Smooth,
Public Enemy,
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
Brass Construction,
Susan Cadogan,
Thompson Twins,
Bush Tetras,
Brand Nubian,
Eric Dolphy,
Youth Brigade,
Clear Light,
Juan Atkins,
Subhumans,
Glambeats Corp.,
R.M.O.,
X-102,
Animal Collective,
Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines,
Gang Green,
The Pretty Things,
Neil Young,
Soulsonic Force,
Gregory Isaacs,
Rotary Connection,
The American Breed,
The Fugs,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
Barbara Tucker,
Jandek,
Tommy Roe,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
Scratch Acid,
London Community Gospel Choir,
Deadbeat,
Junior Murvin,
Hoover,
Howard Jones,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
Arcadia,
Roxette,
Danielle Patucci,
Robert Wyatt,
Fat Boys,
Flipper,
Funkadelic,
Hardrive,
Sugar Minott,
Lou Christie,
Sällskapet,
Mark Hollis,
Pantaleimon,
Kevin Saunderson,
Erykah Badu,
Lou Reed,
The Litter,
H. Thieme,
Oppenheimer Analysis, Oppenheimer Analysis, Oppenheimer Analysis, Oppenheimer Analysis.
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.