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 Mali and from Glasgow.
But I was there.
I was there in 2001.
I was there at the first Tiga show in Montreal.
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 1966 to 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Tehran and New York.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Lille 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 oboe 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 Franke to the punk kids.
I played it at the Troubador.
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 Soft Machine. All the underground hits.
All EPMD tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every CMW record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal crunk 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 oboe and a rhodes and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Eden Ahbez record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Beasts of Bourbon,
Guru Guru,
Cabaret Voltaire,
The Zeros,
The Gories,
Iggy Pop,
Funkadelic,
Kurtis Blow,
The Buckinghams,
The Count Five,
Visage,
The Human League,
Charles Mingus,
K-Klass,
Bobby Hutcherson,
The Shadows of Knight,
Ice-T,
Nils Olav,
Roxette,
Interpol,
The Misunderstood,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
Kas Product,
Sly & The Family Stone,
The Moleskins,
Patti Smith,
The Music Machine,
Roxy Music,
Drexciya,
Deepchord,
Aswad,
Hot Snakes,
Janne Schatter,
Desert Stars,
Joey Negro,
Livin' Joy,
Gang Gang Dance,
Audionom,
Animal Collective,
Von Mondo,
Letta Mbulu,
Strawberry Alarm Clock,
Metal Thangz,
OOIOO,
Gastr Del Sol,
Massinfluence,
Bush Tetras,
H. Thieme,
The Jesus and Mary Chain,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Monolake,
Art Ensemble Of Chicago,
10cc,
Faraquet,
Sad Lovers and Giants,
Crispian St. Peters,
June Days,
Crooked Eye,
Davy DMX,
The Kinks, The Kinks, The Kinks, The Kinks.
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.