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 Colombia and from Seoul.
But I was there.
I was there in 2001.
I was there at the first Tiga show in Montreal.
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 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Hong Kong and Tokyo.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Lyon 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 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 Camberwell Now to the jazz kids.
I played it at the 40 Watt.
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 Gories. All the underground hits.
All Mandrill tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Joe Smooth record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rap hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a güiro and an oboe and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Red Krayola record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a mellotron.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a rhodes.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Lucky Dragons,
La Düsseldorf,
Brass Construction,
Matthew Bourne,
The Motions,
Jimmy McGriff,
Electric Light Orchestra,
Soft Cell,
Sex Pistols,
The Trojans,
Thompson Twins,
Joe Finger,
Y Pants,
Brand Nubian,
The Saints,
Peter and Kerry,
Erasure,
Alphaville,
Gabor Szabo,
OOIOO,
Supertramp,
Brick,
Jandek,
the Slits,
48th St. Collective,
Metal Thangz,
Robert Wyatt,
Outsiders,
KRS-One,
Althea and Donna,
Siglo XX,
Marvin Gaye,
Bush Tetras,
Amazonics,
Erykah Badu,
The Litter,
The Monochrome Set,
EPMD,
Anthony Braxton,
Minor Threat,
Silicon Teens,
Fort Wilson Riot,
Peter & Gordon,
Wasted Youth,
Malaria!,
Connie Case,
The Cure,
Oppenheimer Analysis,
The Count Five,
Kerri Chandler,
The Gun Club,
The Cramps,
Little Man,
The Real Kids,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
The Divine Comedy,
Laurel Aitken,
Fear,
Electric Prunes,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
The Human League,
Zapp,
Q65, Q65, Q65, Q65.
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.