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 Taiwan and from Madrid.
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 1967 to 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Cairo and Hong Kong.
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 guitar 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 Q and Not U to the rap 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 DJ Style. All the underground hits.
All Hasil Adkins tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Derrick Morgan 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 guitar and a mellotron and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Erykah Badu record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your organ and bought an oboe.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought an organ.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Unrelated Segments,
Minny Pops,
Public Enemy,
Arcadia,
Gastr Del Sol,
The Mummies,
Piero Umiliani,
Judy Mowatt,
The Smoke,
Sonny Sharrock,
Clear Light,
Gian Franco Pienzio,
Agitation Free,
Laurel Aitken,
Ralphi Rosario,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
Peter and Kerry,
Livin' Joy,
The Fire Engines,
The Leaves,
Eric Dolphy,
Cymande,
DJ Sneak,
the Sonics,
Jacob Miller,
Bootsy Collins,
Nirvana,
New York Dolls,
Maurizio,
Eric B and Rakim,
PIL,
The Move,
Prince Buster,
Suburban Knight,
Black Pus,
UT,
Robert Wyatt,
Eddi Front,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
The Toasters,
Terrestrial Tones,
Roy Ayers Ubiquity,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
The Music Machine,
Thompson Twins,
Lyres,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
Erasure,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Wire,
Shoche,
The Litter,
Black Bananas,
The Doobie Brothers,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
Kaleidoscope,
The Dirtbombs,
Whodini,
MC5,
Max Romeo, Max Romeo, Max Romeo, Max Romeo.
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.