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 Netherlands and from Tehran.
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 1965 to 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Paris and Philadelphia.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Cairo 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 1975 at the first Ubu practice in a loft in Cleveland.
I was working on the snare 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 Con Funk Shun to the jazz kids.
I played it at the Roxy.
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 Walker Brothers. All the underground hits.
All Qualms tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every UT record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal techno hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying an organ and a marimba and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Jerry Gold Smith record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a chamberlin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Pantytec,
ABC,
Glambeats Corp.,
Patti Smith,
Chrome,
Skriet,
Fort Wilson Riot,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Section 25,
The Fugs,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
Lakeside,
Alton Ellis,
Duran Duran,
Zapp,
Scion,
Alice Coltrane,
Be Bop Deluxe,
Scratch Acid,
Procol Harum,
Lalo Schifrin,
The Alarm Clocks,
Derrick Morgan,
Underground Resistance,
Massinfluence,
Ronan,
the Bar-Kays,
Television Personalities,
Liliput,
Tres Demented,
Johnny Clarke,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
Clear Light,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
Colin Newman,
Boogie Down Productions,
The Sonics,
Kayak,
R.M.O.,
Swans,
Bizarre Inc.,
Richard Hell and the Voidoids,
Yellowson,
Maurizio,
Surgeon,
Slick Rick,
The Cure,
Blossom Toes,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
the Association,
X-101,
Jeff Mills,
LL Cool J,
China Crisis,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Cymande,
The Monks,
The Misunderstood,
A Flock of Seagulls,
Ralphi Rosario,
Isaac Hayes,
Cameo,
Stiv Bators, Stiv Bators, Stiv Bators, Stiv Bators.
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.