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 Madagascar and from Columbus.
But I was there.
I was there in 1971.
I was there at the first Neu! show in Düsseldorf.
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 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Johannesburg and Mumbai.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Lille 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 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 The Cure to the jazz 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 MDC. All the underground hits.
All Con Funk Shun tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Scion record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal crunk 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 guitar and a synthesizer and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Index record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
a-ha,
Dual Sessions,
Lakeside,
Derrick May,
Sandy B,
Wings,
Bobby Sherman,
K-Klass,
The Motions,
Aswad,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
The Beau Brummels,
Peter and Kerry,
Kings Of Tomorrow,
The Mummies,
Audionom,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
The Offenders,
Joensuu 1685,
Spandau Ballet,
Technova,
James White and The Blacks,
Junior Murvin,
Skarface,
Black Sheep,
Michelle Simonal,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Aural Exciters,
Lightning Bolt,
Barbara Tucker,
Isaac Hayes,
R.M.O.,
Organ,
Marc Romboy vs. Booka Shade,
Terry Callier,
Althea and Donna,
Idris Muhammad,
Funkadelic,
Ten City,
Jimmy McGriff,
Spoonie Gee,
Subhumans,
Fad Gadget,
Marcia Griffiths,
The Last Poets,
The Seeds,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
Young Marble Giants,
Alison Limerick,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Pharoah Sanders,
Rod Modell,
Dark Day,
Kerri Chandler,
Amazonics,
Soft Cell,
Josef K,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
The Fuzztones,
Bobby Byrd,
Basic Channel,
Crash Course in Science,
Pantaleimon, Pantaleimon, Pantaleimon, Pantaleimon.
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.