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 Yemen and from Winnipeg.
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 1963 to 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Copenhagen and Bologna.
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 1973 at the first Television practice in a loft in New York.
I was working on the clarinet sounds with much patience.
I was there when Captain Beefheart 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 Quantec to the electroclash 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 Reagan Youth. All the underground hits.
All Television tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Curtis Mayfield 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 '50s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying an organ and a 808 and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Lou Christie record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a spring reverb.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a theremin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Quadrant,
Cecil Taylor,
Television,
The Pop Group,
Absolute Body Control,
Kings Of Tomorrow,
The Vogues,
Intrusion,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Fela Kuti,
X-101,
Simply Red,
Frankie Knuckles,
Joy Division,
Magma,
the Soft Cell,
Ash Ra Tempel,
Gregory Isaacs,
The Misunderstood,
Lakeside,
Qualms,
Supertramp,
Juan Atkins,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
Black Flag,
Roger Hodgson,
Talk Talk,
Mr. Review,
The Cramps,
Gastr Del Sol,
The Blues Magoos,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
Gong,
Joe Finger,
Nik Kershaw,
Johnny Osbourne,
Procol Harum,
Stiv Bators,
Bootsy's Rubber Band,
Electric Light Orchestra,
These Immortal Souls,
Marshall Jefferson,
Flash Fearless,
Zero Boys,
Grandmaster Flash,
Thinking Fellers Union Local 282,
Kool Moe Dee,
Kango’s Stein Massive,
The Mighty Diamonds,
Fort Wilson Riot,
Crispian St. Peters,
Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines,
Soft Machine,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
Bill Near,
Wally Richardson,
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
The Skatalites, The Skatalites, The Skatalites, The Skatalites.
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.