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 Estonia and from Cairo.
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 1968 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Taipei and Delhi.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Seoul 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 2001 at the first Tiga practice in a loft in Montreal.
I was working on the rhodes sounds with much patience.
I was there when Captain Beefheart 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 Brick to the rock 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 La Düsseldorf. All the underground hits.
All Freddie Wadling tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Kerri Chandler record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal disco 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 808 and an organ and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a FM Einheit record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought a chamberlin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a snare.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
In Retrospect,
Los Fastidios,
Jerry's Kids,
Qualms,
Rosa Yemen,
Angels of Light & Akron/Family,
Scan 7,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
Ornette Coleman,
Aaron Thompson,
Thinking Fellers Union Local 282,
Agent Orange,
Letta Mbulu,
Mantronix,
Dual Sessions,
MC5,
Masters at Work,
Q and Not U,
Lindisfarne,
Theoretical Girls,
Fluxion,
Sällskapet,
The Gories,
Lakeside,
Marshall Jefferson,
Lalo Schifrin,
Thee Headcoats,
Amon Düül,
The Sonics,
Shuggie Otis,
Jacob Miller,
The Names,
Ultra Naté,
Audionom,
Soul II Soul,
Lightning Bolt,
Y Pants,
Lalann,
AZ,
Excepter,
Colin Newman,
Basic Channel,
The Doors,
Quando Quango,
The Blackbyrds,
Crash Course in Science,
Larry & the Blue Notes,
Anthony Braxton,
Joyce Sims,
Flamin' Groovies,
The Neon Judgement,
The Invisible,
Soulsonic Force,
Cybotron,
Eve St. Jones,
Alison Limerick,
Cheater Slicks,
Echo & the Bunnymen,
The Mojo Men,
Supertramp,
Soul Sonic Force, Soul Sonic Force, Soul Sonic Force, Soul Sonic Force.
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.