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 India and from Hong Kong.
But I was there.
I was there in 1968.
I was there at the first Can show in Cologne.
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 1961 to 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Portland and Tehran.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Seoul 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 Robert Palmer 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 Alarm Clocks to the dance kids.
I played it at Trash.
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 Peter & Gordon. All the underground hits.
All Jeff Lynne tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Minor Threat record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal techno 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 linndrum and a marimba and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Guru Guru record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your harpsichord and bought a rhodes.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a harpsichord.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Black Moon,
LL Cool J,
The Modern Lovers,
Gil Scott Heron,
Crash Course in Science,
Strawberry Alarm Clock,
Flash Fearless,
New Order,
Make Up,
Fatback Band,
Agitation Free,
Joe Smooth,
Al Stewart,
Arthur Verocai,
Donald Byrd,
Faust,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Basic Channel,
The Real Kids,
John Cale,
H. Thieme,
Pulsallama,
Underground Resistance,
Erasure,
L. Decosne,
Jerry's Kids,
Thee Headcoats,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
The Last Poets,
Iggy Pop,
Gastr Del Sol,
Schoolly D,
Amon Düül,
Mandrill,
Godley & Creme,
KRS-One,
Alice Coltrane,
Kool Moe Dee,
Fad Gadget,
Technova,
The Invisible,
Yaz,
These Immortal Souls,
Brick,
Subhumans,
Livin' Joy,
Marmalade,
Q65,
Bootsy's Rubber Band,
Scion,
The Moleskins,
Nirvana,
Rotary Connection,
UT,
Althea and Donna,
Blancmange,
Audionom,
The Music Machine,
The Fugs, The Fugs, The Fugs, The Fugs.
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.