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 Chad and from Hong Kong.
But I was there.
I was there in 1976.
I was there at the first Feelies show in Haledon.
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 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Sao Paulo and Mumbai.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Bologna 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 clarinet sounds with much patience.
I was there when Donald Fagen 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 The Happenings to the disco 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 New Christs. All the underground hits.
All The Fugs tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Maurizio record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rock 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 a guitar and a güiro and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Monochrome Set record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your harpsichord and bought a chamberlin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a harpsichord.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Silicon Teens,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
The Monochrome Set,
Public Enemy,
Janne Schatter,
Kenny Larkin,
Khruangbin,
Rod Modell,
Louis and Bebe Barron,
Lou Christie,
The Leaves,
Sarah Menescal,
Lungfish,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
Letta Mbulu,
Terrestrial Tones,
The Stooges,
Outsiders,
Half Japanese,
Ash Ra Tempel,
The Associates,
Delon & Dalcan,
Tres Demented,
The Real Kids,
Kurtis Blow,
CMW,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Black Sheep,
La Düsseldorf,
Wally Richardson,
cv313,
Thompson Twins,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Kevin Saunderson,
Bang on a Can All-Stars,
Ultra Naté,
The Music Machine,
The Blues Magoos,
Subhumans,
The Standells,
Gastr Del Sol,
The Smoke,
Inner City,
Ice-T,
Cameo,
Average White Band,
The Toasters,
Eden Ahbez,
The Barracudas,
Visage,
Aloha Tigers,
Colin Newman,
The Divine Comedy,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
Judy Mowatt,
Bill Near,
Hoover,
This Heat,
Erasure,
Suburban Knight,
Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx, Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx, Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx, Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx.
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.