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 Bangladesh and from Mexico City.
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 1966 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Paris and Manchester.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Manila 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 1976 at the first Feelies practice in a loft in Haledon.
I was working on the chamberlin sounds with much patience.
I was there when David Bowie 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 Shadows of Knight to the rock 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 The Fuzztones. All the underground hits.
All Clear Light tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Negative Approach record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grunge 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 arpeggiator and a snare and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Idris Muhammad record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a snare.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare 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?
Sam Rivers,
Public Image Ltd.,
Kayak,
The Gories,
Jacob Miller,
John Cale,
Eddi Front,
OOIOO,
Reuben Wilson,
Agitation Free,
Y Pants,
Kevin Saunderson,
The Trojans,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx,
Dorothy Ashby,
New York Dolls,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
kango's stein massive,
Rosa Yemen,
It's A Beautiful Day,
Arcadia,
Lee Hazlewood,
Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson,
Brass Construction,
Mars,
Model 500,
Marcia Griffiths,
Scratch Acid,
Tropical Tobacco,
Erykah Badu,
Rod Modell,
Lou Christie,
Ponytail,
Guru Guru,
Deakin,
James White and The Blacks,
Franke,
Morten Harket,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Jimmy McGriff,
Eurythmics,
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark,
Boredoms,
Alice Coltrane,
UT,
Sonny Sharrock,
Flipper,
The Invisible,
CMW,
Minor Threat,
Radiohead,
8 Eyed Spy,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Sight & Sound,
Au Pairs,
Echo & the Bunnymen,
Nico,
Jeff Lynne,
The Fall, The Fall, The Fall, The Fall.
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.