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 Romania and from London.
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 1967 to 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Lagos and Cairo.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Delhi 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 rhodes sounds with much patience.
I was there when Robert Palmer 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 Ash Ra Tempel to the electroclash kids.
I played it at the 40 Watt.
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 Massinfluence. All the underground hits.
All Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Roger Hodgson 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 '80s.
I hear you're buying a marimba and a mellotron and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Justin Hinds & The Dominoes record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a sitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a spring reverb.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Joensuu 1685,
Black Pus,
Mary Jane Girls,
The Moleskins,
Organ,
Amon Düül,
48th St. Collective,
Marshall Jefferson,
Scientists,
Ice-T,
New Order,
Hasil Adkins,
Erykah Badu,
Maurizio,
Vainqueur,
Pylon,
Ken Boothe,
Hot Snakes,
The Residents,
China Crisis,
LL Cool J,
Boz Scaggs,
Duran Duran,
Monks,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
Nils Olav,
Bobby Sherman,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
Crispian St. Peters,
Joey Negro,
Cal Tjader,
Bobby Womack,
Eurythmics,
The Velvet Underground,
Ornette Coleman,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
Robert Hood,
Pet Shop Boys,
Man Eating Sloth,
Minny Pops,
It's A Beautiful Day,
MC5,
Kings Of Tomorrow,
Rotary Connection,
Brick,
June Days,
Urselle,
Eden Ahbez,
Saccharine Trust,
Stockholm Monsters,
Mad Mike,
Howard Jones,
Main Source,
Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft,
Donald Byrd,
Strawberry Alarm Clock,
The Mighty Diamonds,
Kas Product,
The Cure,
Soulsonic Force,
The Smiths,
The Last Poets,
New York Dolls, New York Dolls, New York Dolls, New York Dolls.
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.