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 Iceland and from Houston.
But I was there.
I was there in 1971.
I was there at the first Big Star show in Memphis.
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 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Spokane and Manila.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Manila 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 1975 at the first Ubu practice in a loft in Cleveland.
I was working on the sitar 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 Litter to the punk 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 Chris & Cosey. All the underground hits.
All Kenny Larkin tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Eurythmics record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grunge 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 rhodes and an oboe and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Easy Going record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought a spring reverb.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a snare.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Barry Ungar,
Bizarre Inc.,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
In Retrospect,
Aural Exciters,
The Techniques,
Nick Fraelich,
Sly & The Family Stone,
CMW,
Jacques Brel,
Roxette,
Magma,
Quadrant,
Sarah Menescal,
Harmonia,
Boredoms,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
The Doobie Brothers,
Adolescents,
Roy Ayers,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
The Moody Blues,
Erasure,
Rosa Yemen,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
Popol Vuh,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
The Motions,
Mission of Burma,
Marine Girls,
Neil Young,
KRS-One,
The Count Five,
Drive Like Jehu,
John Cale,
L. Decosne,
Procol Harum,
MDC,
Mark Hollis,
Don Cherry,
Make Up,
Talk Talk,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Max Romeo,
Liaisons Dangereuses,
Sunsets and Hearts,
Sugar Minott,
Alton Ellis,
The Jesus and Mary Chain,
The Victims,
Sexual Harrassment,
Todd Rundgren,
Clear Light,
Panda Bear,
Urselle,
Rufus Thomas,
the Bar-Kays,
Liliput,
Angels of Light & Akron/Family, Angels of Light & Akron/Family, Angels of Light & Akron/Family, Angels of Light & Akron/Family.
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.