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 Toronto.
But I was there.
I was there in 1973.
I was there at the first Television show in New York.
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 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Mexico City and Manchester.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Houston 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 David Bowie 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 Larry & the Blue Notes to the dance 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 Stetsasonic. All the underground hits.
All Major Organ And The Adding Machine tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Marmalade record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal electroclash 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 rhodes and a marimba and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Arthur Verocai record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a snare.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Connie Case,
The Peanut Butter Conspiracy,
Flipper,
Nation of Ulysses,
Drexciya,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
Gang Green,
Alphaville,
Trumans Water,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
Whodini,
Derrick Morgan,
Robert Wyatt,
Toni Rubio,
EPMD,
Warsaw,
Prince Buster,
Harmonia,
Basic Channel,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
T.S.O.L.,
The Neon Judgement,
Reuben Wilson,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Dave Gahan,
Mad Mike,
Radio Birdman,
The Saints,
Essential Logic,
Barry Ungar,
Frankie Knuckles,
James White and The Blacks,
The Smiths,
Scrapy,
Wasted Youth,
Soulsonic Force,
Marshall Jefferson,
Bill Wells,
Pagans,
The Gladiators,
Matthew Halsall,
Unrelated Segments,
Ornette Coleman,
Pantytec,
Adolescents,
Rhythm & Sound,
Deepchord,
Amon Düül II,
E-Dancer,
The Jesus and Mary Chain,
Bootsy Collins,
Jerry's Kids,
Rites of Spring,
8 Eyed Spy,
The Mighty Diamonds,
Q65,
Siglo XX,
The Residents,
The Martian,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
Roy Ayers,
Pole,
The Invisible, The Invisible, The Invisible, The Invisible.
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.