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 Moldova and from Manchester.
But I was there.
I was there in 1979.
I was there at the first Second Layer show in South London.
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 1961 to 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Seoul and Tehran.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Salvador 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 synthesizer 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 Vainqueur to the rock 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 Robert Hood. All the underground hits.
All Jacob Miller tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Glenn Branca 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 guitar and an organ and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Althea and Donna record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a rhodes.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Nils Olav,
Public Enemy,
Isaac Hayes,
Marvin Gaye,
Nico,
Jandek,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
The Dave Clark Five,
Trumans Water,
Hasil Adkins,
Alton Ellis,
Siglo XX,
Excepter,
Kool Moe Dee,
Sun City Girls,
Junior Murvin,
The Associates,
The Trojans,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
Ornette Coleman,
10cc,
Rosa Yemen,
Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
Nirvana,
Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx,
Traffic Nightmare,
Chris & Cosey,
Mo-Dettes,
The Cowsills,
Terrestrial Tones,
Nik Kershaw,
Bang on a Can All-Stars,
Scan 7,
June of 44,
Marine Girls,
Donny Hathaway,
Ken Boothe,
Reagan Youth,
Pere Ubu,
Barry Ungar,
Kerrie Biddell,
Outsiders,
The Kinks,
Main Source,
DNA,
Scratch Acid,
Sällskapet,
AZ,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
Technova,
Yaz,
Goldenarms,
The Slackers,
Eddi Front,
Amazonics,
a-ha,
Skarface,
Quantec,
Theoretical Girls,
Wire,
Althea and Donna, Althea and Donna, Althea and Donna, Althea and Donna.
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.