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 Angola and from Copenhagen.
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 1966 to 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Edmonton and Tehran.
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 clarinet 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 Banda Bassotti to the dance kids.
I played it at Cafe Wha.
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 Warren Ellis. All the underground hits.
All Pantytec tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Marine Girls record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rock 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 linndrum and a snare and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Rhythim Is Rhythim record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a sitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a 808.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Lalann,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
Electric Light Orchestra,
Television Personalities,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
Jesper Dahlback,
Ten City,
Anthony Braxton,
Eric Copeland,
Sonic Youth,
K-Klass,
The Pop Group,
Al Stewart,
Echospace,
The Happenings,
The Blues Magoos,
Fela Kuti,
June of 44,
Rakim,
cv313,
Ultravox,
Sarah Menescal,
New York Dolls,
the Germs,
Siglo XX,
Davy DMX,
Tom Boy,
Ultimate Spinach,
B.T. Express,
The Divine Comedy,
Bobbi Humphrey,
Basic Channel,
Albert Ayler,
Bobby Sherman,
Brass Construction,
X-102,
The Dirtbombs,
The Durutti Column,
The Slits,
New Age Steppers,
The Moody Blues,
Procol Harum,
The Pretty Things,
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
Ash Ra Tempel,
The Skatalites,
Sight & Sound,
Suburban Knight,
Television,
Funky Four + One,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
Arcadia,
Jerry Gold Smith,
Roxette,
Delta 5,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
Juan Atkins,
Guru Guru,
Strawberry Alarm Clock,
Bob Dylan,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
The Count Five,
Gil Scott Heron,
The Doobie Brothers, The Doobie Brothers, The Doobie Brothers, The Doobie Brothers.
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.