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 Kiribati and from Glasgow.
But I was there.
I was there in 1975.
I was there at the first Ubu show in Cleveland.
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 1968 to 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Salvador and Shanghai.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Taipei 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 synthesizer 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 Spandau Ballet to the rock 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 Delon & Dalcan. All the underground hits.
All Aswad tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Popol Vuh record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal jazz hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a güiro and a clarinet and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Sun City Girls record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought a sitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a snare.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Technova,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Arab on Radar,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
LL Cool J,
Lucky Dragons,
Boz Scaggs,
The Smoke,
The Monochrome Set,
Graham Central Station,
Alphaville,
Delta 5,
Iggy Pop,
Joyce Sims,
Make Up,
Ash Ra Tempel,
E-Dancer,
Barry Ungar,
Monolake,
Bang On A Can,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
Bobbi Humphrey,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
The United States of America,
Duran Duran,
Soul II Soul,
MDC,
Flipper,
Echo & the Bunnymen,
Funky Four + One,
the Germs,
Marcia Griffiths,
Cabaret Voltaire,
Popol Vuh,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
The Sound,
Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
The Dead C,
Pylon,
Andrew Hill,
Tom Boy,
Mars,
Kool Moe Dee,
David Bowie,
Drexciya,
Al Stewart,
Ten City,
The Neon Judgement,
Kerri Chandler,
Junior Murvin,
Fela Kuti,
Black Moon,
Aaron Thompson,
The Gladiators,
The Star Department,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
Curtis Mayfield,
Moby Grape,
Mr. Review,
Kenny Larkin,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
Alice Coltrane, Alice Coltrane, Alice Coltrane, Alice Coltrane.
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.