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 Benin and from Woodstock.
But I was there.
I was there in 1983.
I was there at the first Lewis show in Vancouver.
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 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Mumbai and Houston.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Lyon 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 Lou Reed 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 The Raincoats to the dance kids.
I played it at the Roxy.
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 Harpers Bizarre. All the underground hits.
All Essential Logic tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Jandek 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 theremin and a linndrum and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Tom Boy record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a mellotron.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a rhodes.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Rhythm & Sound,
Pantytec,
Lower 48,
Ponytail,
Shuggie Otis,
Unwound,
Ornette Coleman,
Minnie Riperton,
kango's stein massive,
Magma,
Eric Dolphy,
DJ Sneak,
Metal Thangz,
China Crisis,
The Fuzztones,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
Japan,
Das Ding,
Absolute Body Control,
Terrestrial Tones,
Ituana,
The Divine Comedy,
Gerry Rafferty,
The Dave Clark Five,
The Mojo Men,
Tubeway Army,
B.T. Express,
Smog,
The Durutti Column,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
Loose Ends,
Bob Dylan,
The Slackers,
Schoolly D,
Buzzcocks,
Pole,
Tim Buckley,
Animal Collective,
Clear Light,
These Immortal Souls,
Agent Orange,
Oblivians,
Bootsy Collins,
Nils Olav,
Isaac Hayes,
The Toasters,
Deadbeat,
Hashim,
Erasure,
Peter and Kerry,
Derrick Morgan,
Pharoah Sanders,
Zapp,
Whodini,
Maurizio,
Liliput,
Rod Modell,
The Electric Prunes,
Black Bananas,
Chrome,
Monolake,
The American Breed,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell, N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell, N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell, N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell.
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.