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 Monaco and from Manila.
But I was there.
I was there in 1987.
I was there at the first Nirvana show in Seattle.
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 1966 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Manchester and Lille.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Lagos 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 spring reverb 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 Agitation Free to the funk 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 Aaron Thompson. All the underground hits.
All Erasure tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Minny Pops record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rap hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a linndrum and a theremin 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 rhodes and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a rhodes.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Marcia Griffiths,
Ten City,
Ash Ra Tempel,
Popol Vuh,
Yaz,
Mark Hollis,
The Cramps,
Derrick May,
E-Dancer,
Sex Pistols,
Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines,
CMW,
Yusef Lateef,
Sight & Sound,
The Vogues,
Crispy Ambulance,
Derrick Morgan,
Radiopuhelimet,
Toni Rubio,
Sunsets and Hearts,
The Velvet Underground,
Bobbi Humphrey,
Jerry Gold Smith,
Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane,
Soul II Soul,
Panda Bear,
Kas Product,
John Holt,
Hoover,
Magma,
Traffic Nightmare,
Aloha Tigers,
Massinfluence,
Cymande,
Gang of Four,
R.M.O.,
Kings Of Tomorrow,
Tubeway Army,
Lee Hazlewood,
Mary Jane Girls,
A Certain Ratio,
The Zeros,
Cal Tjader,
Jeru the Damaja,
The Modern Lovers,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
ABBA,
Joe Smooth,
Patti Smith,
Eric B and Rakim,
Lungfish,
Marine Girls,
The Invisible,
Roxy Music,
Nick Fraelich,
One Last Wish,
Easy Going,
The Gun Club,
Lou Reed & Metallica, Lou Reed & Metallica, Lou Reed & Metallica, Lou Reed & Metallica.
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.