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 Nepal and from Bremen.
But I was there.
I was there in 1962.
I was there at the first Guess Who show in Winnipeg.
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 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Houston and Madrid.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Woodstock 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 mellotron sounds with much patience.
I was there when Tom Verlaine 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 Slits to the grime 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 Swans. All the underground hits.
All Rhythm & Sound tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Velvet Underground record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grime hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a snare and an arpeggiator and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Agitation Free record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a snare.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought a mellotron.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
LL Cool J,
Flash Fearless,
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark,
David Axelrod,
Marmalade,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
K-Klass,
Bang on a Can All-Stars,
The Fuzztones,
Roger Hodgson,
The Young Rascals,
The Velvet Underground,
Mo-Dettes,
Prince Buster,
Hoover,
Bizarre Inc.,
Reuben Wilson,
X-102,
Eli Mardock,
Morten Harket,
Magma,
T.S.O.L.,
Larry & the Blue Notes,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
Agitation Free,
Intrusion,
Rufus Thomas,
Yazoo,
the Bar-Kays,
The Sound,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
JFA,
Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane,
Avey Tare,
The Music Machine,
Delon & Dalcan,
Sparks,
Carl Craig,
Sunsets and Hearts,
Guru Guru,
Essential Logic,
Drive Like Jehu,
The New Christs,
John Lydon,
Yaz,
Eve St. Jones,
Tommy Roe,
Eden Ahbez,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
This Heat,
Newcleus,
The Gories,
Bootsy Collins,
DJ Sneak,
Lindisfarne,
Lakeside,
The Modern Lovers,
Metal Thangz,
Piero Umiliani,
Y Pants,
Dual Sessions,
Black Moon,
Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft,
Gang of Four, Gang of Four, Gang of Four, Gang of Four.
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.