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 Iceland and from Spokane.
But I was there.
I was there in 1965.
I was there at the first Beefheart show in Lancaster.
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 1963 to 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in London and Taipei.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Copenhagen 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 theremin 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 Simply Red to the disco 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 Make Up. All the underground hits.
All Pole tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Fortunes 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 '60s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a chamberlin and a güiro and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Trojans record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a mellotron.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a 808.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Kaleidoscope,
Television,
Deadbeat,
The Sound,
Alton Ellis,
Au Pairs,
Quantec,
Gastr Del Sol,
Lalann,
Radiopuhelimet,
Gang of Four,
Jesper Dahlback,
The Sonics,
The Slackers,
Underground Resistance,
The Young Rascals,
Janne Schatter,
Rakim,
The Tremeloes,
The Cowsills,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
June Days,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
Camouflage,
Ultimate Spinach,
Gian Franco Pienzio,
Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane,
Pharoah Sanders,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
MDC,
Swell Maps,
Black Flag,
The Fall,
Sexual Harrassment,
Roy Ayers,
Nick Fraelich,
Heaven 17,
The Victims,
Red Lorry Yellow Lorry,
R.M.O.,
Piero Umiliani,
Schoolly D,
Mr. Review,
OOIOO,
Don Cherry,
Isaac Hayes,
Johnny Osbourne,
Vladislav Delay,
Metal Thangz,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
Talk Talk,
the Swans,
Nas,
Joensuu 1685,
Wolf Eyes,
Tubeway Army,
Electric Light Orchestra,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Soulsonic Force,
Drive Like Jehu,
New York Dolls,
Chrome,
Selector Dub Narcotic, Selector Dub Narcotic, Selector Dub Narcotic, Selector Dub Narcotic.
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.