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 Israel and from Glasgow.
But I was there.
I was there in 1980.
I was there at the first Cybotron show in Detroit.
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 1960 to 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Bremen and Manchester.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Bologna 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 sitar sounds with much patience.
I was there when Donald Fagen 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 Bootsy Collins to the rap kids.
I played it at Cafe Wha.
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 Siglo XX. All the underground hits.
All Spoonie Gee tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Radiohead record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal punk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a synthesizer and a theremin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Richard Hell and the Voidoids record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a sitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Piero Umiliani,
the Swans,
Rites of Spring,
Boredoms,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
The Stooges,
The Barracudas,
Ten City,
Duran Duran,
Fort Wilson Riot,
Groovy Waters,
Ultravox,
Jerry's Kids,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Don Cherry,
Basic Channel,
Scott Walker,
Rapeman,
Monolake,
Bobby Sherman,
Echo & the Bunnymen,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
Con Funk Shun,
Zapp,
Tears for Fears,
Boogie Down Productions,
Eric Dolphy,
Livin' Joy,
The Sonics,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Q65,
Jacob Miller,
Hoover,
the Human League,
Infiniti,
ABC,
Slick Rick,
Fifty Foot Hose,
Crispy Ambulance,
CMW,
China Crisis,
Youth Brigade,
Oppenheimer Analysis,
Ultimate Spinach,
The Selecter,
Andrew Hill,
the Germs,
Sonic Youth,
Schoolly D,
Section 25,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Man Eating Sloth,
Bootsy's Rubber Band,
Procol Harum,
The Sound,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
the Association,
Excepter,
Bobby Hutcherson,
Spoonie Gee,
Faraquet,
Skaos, Skaos, Skaos, Skaos.
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.