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 India and from Portland.
But I was there.
I was there in 1987.
I was there at the first Nirvana show in Seattle.
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 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Calgary and Calgary.
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 linndrum sounds with much patience.
I was there when Donald Fagen 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 Be Bop Deluxe to the disco 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 Lou Reed. All the underground hits.
All Yusef Lateef tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The New Christs record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal funk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a guitar and a marimba and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Visage record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought an oboe.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a 808.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
the Bar-Kays,
Fluxion,
Bang On A Can,
Morten Harket,
Country Joe & The Fish,
Franke,
B.T. Express,
Ponytail,
Michelle Simonal,
Moby Grape,
The Monks,
Monolake,
Black Sheep,
Adolescents,
These Immortal Souls,
Arab on Radar,
Vladislav Delay,
Jacob Miller,
Quadrant,
Sly & The Family Stone,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Eve St. Jones,
Pierre Henry,
Spandau Ballet,
Sound Behaviour,
Ohio Players,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Toni Rubio,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Magazine,
LL Cool J,
Letta Mbulu,
Derrick Morgan,
Cymande,
Bobby Womack,
Television Personalities,
Stereo Dub,
The Blackbyrds,
Anakelly,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
The Real Kids,
Connie Case,
Kenny Larkin,
The Trojans,
JFA,
Slick Rick,
Jerry Gold Smith,
Isaac Hayes,
Gong,
8 Eyed Spy,
Pulsallama,
James White and The Blacks,
Talk Talk,
The Residents,
Section 25,
Lower 48,
The Gun Club,
The Alarm Clocks,
OOIOO, OOIOO, OOIOO, OOIOO.
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.