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 Dominican Republic and from Sao Paulo.
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 1960 to 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Winnipeg and Cairo.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Bremen 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 at the first Suicide practice in a loft in New York.
I was working on the synthesizer 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 Sight & Sound to the electroclash kids.
I played it at the Troubador.
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 Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel. All the underground hits.
All Masters at Work tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every New York Dolls record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal jazz hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying an organ and a guitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Jerry's Kids record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought an arpeggiator.
I hear that you and your band have sold your arpeggiator and bought a sitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Heavy D & The Boyz,
the Bar-Kays,
The Monochrome Set,
Jerry's Kids,
Kenny Larkin,
Susan Cadogan,
The Velvet Underground,
Shoche,
Altered Images,
Wally Richardson,
Banda Bassotti,
Fat Boys,
The Fuzztones,
Warsaw,
Alphaville,
The Birthday Party,
Big Daddy Kane,
Hoover,
The Mummies,
Lower 48,
Lightning Bolt,
Skriet,
AZ,
Japan,
Mars,
The Modern Lovers,
PIL,
Gichy Dan,
Ten City,
Rhythm & Sound,
Gerry Rafferty,
Crispian St. Peters,
Man Parrish,
Joensuu 1685,
It's A Beautiful Day,
Wolf Eyes,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
The Dead C,
The Dave Clark Five,
Eli Mardock,
Unwound,
Thompson Twins,
Quadrant,
Jawbox,
Nico,
Gang Green,
The Pretty Things,
Can,
Prince Buster,
Little Man,
Average White Band,
Scan 7,
K-Klass,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
The Associates,
Bootsy Collins,
X-102, X-102, X-102, X-102.
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.