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 Iraq and from Manchester.
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 1969 to 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Woodstock and Bremen.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Lagos 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 1983 at the first Lewis practice in a loft in Vancouver.
I was working on the linndrum 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 Au Pairs to the crunk kids.
I played it at Trash.
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 Vogues. All the underground hits.
All JFA tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Smiths 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 '90s.
I hear you're buying a guitar and a mellotron and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Sound record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a spring reverb.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Model 500,
the Germs,
kango's stein massive,
Underground Resistance,
June of 44,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Fluxion,
Glenn Branca,
Echospace,
The Birthday Party,
Brand Nubian,
Theoretical Girls,
Shuggie Otis,
Kool Moe Dee,
Andrew Hill,
The Real Kids,
Procol Harum,
Matthew Halsall,
Fort Wilson Riot,
Ornette Coleman,
JFA,
Donald Byrd,
The Martian,
Joe Smooth,
Mark Hollis,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
Eyeless In Gaza,
Deadbeat,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
Joy Division,
Symarip,
Urselle,
UT,
Howard Jones,
The Pretty Things,
Soulsonic Force,
The Angels of Light,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
Althea and Donna,
World's Most,
8 Eyed Spy,
Joyce Sims,
Derrick May,
The Motions,
The Blackbyrds,
Maurizio,
Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft,
Bobby Womack,
Alton Ellis,
Red Lorry Yellow Lorry,
F. McDonald,
Kenny Larkin,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
The Residents,
Fela Kuti,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
The Moody Blues,
Tommy Roe,
Jesper Dahlback,
X-Ray Spex,
Jeru the Damaja,
Jawbox,
Mandrill, Mandrill, Mandrill, Mandrill.
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.