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 Jamaica and from Taipei.
But I was there.
I was there in 1977.
I was there at the first Mistral show in Amsterdam.
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 1965 to 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Madrid and New York.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Philadelphia 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 snare 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 Pole to the funk kids.
I played it at the Astoria.
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 Babytalk. All the underground hits.
All Eric Dolphy tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Piero Umiliani record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal jazz hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a clarinet and an oboe and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Drive Like Jehu 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?
Metal Thangz,
Sugar Minott,
Max Romeo,
Man Parrish,
The Velvet Underground,
Gong,
Minny Pops,
X-101,
The American Breed,
Roxette,
Fugazi,
Chrome,
Jeff Lynne,
Johnny Osbourne,
OOIOO,
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark,
Guru Guru,
The Count Five,
Michelle Simonal,
Minor Threat,
New Order,
Fort Wilson Riot,
the Soft Cell,
Funky Four + One,
Von Mondo,
Gang Gang Dance,
The Cosmic Jokers,
The Raincoats,
Marc Almond,
Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane,
Cabaret Voltaire,
Dawn Penn,
Throbbing Gristle,
Junior Murvin,
KRS-One,
Y Pants,
The Red Krayola,
Amon Düül,
The Black Dice,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
Joy Division,
Lou Christie,
Flipper,
Sad Lovers and Giants,
Pharoah Sanders,
Nico,
Lower 48,
Das Ding,
Accadde A,
Angry Samoans,
the Human League,
Bad Manners,
Easy Going,
The Index,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Lalann,
The Last Poets,
Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx,
Teenage Jesus and the Jerks,
Barclay James Harvest,
The Motions,
Joey Negro,
Ash Ra Tempel, Ash Ra Tempel, Ash Ra Tempel, Ash Ra Tempel.
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.