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 Papua New Guinea and from Lagos.
But I was there.
I was there in 1980.
I was there at the first Cybotron show in Detroit.
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 1968 to 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Johannesburg and Winnipeg.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Winnipeg 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 arpeggiator 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 Girls At Our Best! to the crunk kids.
I played it at the Hacienda.
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 Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth. All the underground hits.
All Tim Buckley tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Wings record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal punk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a rhodes and a güiro and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Tres Demented 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?
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Sun City Girls,
Sonny Sharrock,
Fugazi,
Neu!,
Donald Byrd,
Cybotron,
Bang on a Can All-Stars,
The Techniques,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
The Young Rascals,
The Doors,
Eddi Front,
Dual Sessions,
a-ha,
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark,
The Mummies,
Alton Ellis,
The Pretty Things,
Con Funk Shun,
Gil Scott Heron,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
Zero Boys,
Liliput,
Maleditus Sound,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
Scion,
Jacques Brel,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Public Image Ltd.,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Bob Dylan,
Au Pairs,
U.S. Maple,
Moby Grape,
Sugar Minott,
The Leaves,
Bauhaus,
Quantec,
Stereo Dub,
Gabor Szabo,
Junior Murvin,
The Divine Comedy,
Minnie Riperton,
Frankie Knuckles,
Rapeman,
Eli Mardock,
Average White Band,
Soul II Soul,
The Kinks,
Drive Like Jehu,
The Real Kids,
Babytalk,
New Age Steppers,
Scrapy,
Marcia Griffiths,
The Dirtbombs,
Pylon,
Jeff Lynne,
Sarah Menescal,
Whodini,
Peter and Kerry, Peter and Kerry, Peter and Kerry, Peter and Kerry.
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.