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 Kosovo and from Paris.
But I was there.
I was there in 1967.
I was there at the first Rodriguez 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 1969 to 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Winnipeg and Manchester.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Philadelphia 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 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 Jandek to the dance 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 Fort Wilson Riot. All the underground hits.
All Harmonia tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Erykah Badu 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 '80s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a 808 and a mellotron and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Invisible record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a rhodes.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a mellotron.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Kool Moe Dee,
Cybotron,
R.M.O.,
Massinfluence,
Eric B and Rakim,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
10cc,
The Monks,
Alison Limerick,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Minor Threat,
The Young Rascals,
Accadde A,
Fifty Foot Hose,
Jimmy McGriff,
Pole,
the Bar-Kays,
EPMD,
Index,
Television Personalities,
Jawbox,
Schoolly D,
OOIOO,
Ice-T,
Audionom,
The Skatalites,
The Red Krayola,
Todd Rundgren,
Can,
Marine Girls,
Sister Nancy,
Anakelly,
Cymande,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Sex Pistols,
Rufus Thomas,
In Retrospect,
The Alarm Clocks,
Basic Channel,
Skaos,
the Normal,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
T.S.O.L.,
Youth Brigade,
The Human League,
Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane,
L. Decosne,
Cal Tjader,
Buzzcocks,
LL Cool J,
Thompson Twins,
Pantytec,
The Barracudas,
Sun Ra,
Panda Bear,
The Smoke,
MDC,
Dual Sessions,
Lakeside,
Minnie Riperton,
The Electric Prunes,
Kayak,
Rosa Yemen,
Joey Negro, Joey Negro, Joey Negro, Joey Negro.
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.