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 Bolivia and from Lille.
But I was there.
I was there in 1973.
I was there at the first Television show in New York.
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 1961 to 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Seoul and Woodstock.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Delhi 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 organ sounds with much patience.
I was there when Lou Reed 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 Livin' Joy to the electroclash 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 The Names. All the underground hits.
All Neil Young tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Marine Girls 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 '60s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a snare and a clarinet and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Mission of Burma record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought an organ.
I hear that you and your band have sold your organ and bought a linndrum.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Shoche,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
Dual Sessions,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
The Knickerbockers,
Barbara Tucker,
Severed Heads,
Scion,
Crime,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
Joensuu 1685,
the Slits,
The Cramps,
cv313,
Porter Ricks,
The Cosmic Jokers,
Graham Central Station,
Rod Modell,
Ralphi Rosario,
Chrome,
Scientists,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
The Five Americans,
Bauhaus,
Danielle Patucci,
The Skatalites,
Brass Construction,
R.M.O.,
Arthur Verocai,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Guru Guru,
The Sonics,
Sixth Finger,
Sly & The Family Stone,
Camberwell Now,
Babytalk,
Electric Prunes,
Donny Hathaway,
Roy Ayers Ubiquity,
Barry Ungar,
Accadde A,
Can,
The Divine Comedy,
Gabor Szabo,
The Evens,
Alton Ellis,
Cameo,
Motorama,
Bang on a Can All-Stars,
Ultimate Spinach,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
Goldenarms,
Drexciya,
The American Breed,
Jeff Mills,
the Bar-Kays,
Peter and Kerry,
Supertramp, Supertramp, Supertramp, Supertramp.
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.