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 Burkina and from Spokane.
But I was there.
I was there in 1976.
I was there at the first Feelies show in Haledon.
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 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Mumbai and Salvador.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Spokane 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 mellotron 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 Mantronix to the grunge kids.
I played it at CBGB's.
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 Heaven 17. All the underground hits.
All The Red Krayola tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every L. Decosne 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 '70s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a güiro and a 808 and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Judy Mowatt record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought an organ.
I hear that you and your band have sold your organ and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Toasters,
Accadde A,
Severed Heads,
Con Funk Shun,
Mandrill,
Stereo Dub,
Masters at Work,
Groovy Waters,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
Teenage Jesus and the Jerks,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
The Fire Engines,
Kerri Chandler,
Roger Hodgson,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Sällskapet,
Flipper,
The Victims,
Rotary Connection,
Wolf Eyes,
Popol Vuh,
The Walker Brothers,
The Golliwogs,
Matthew Halsall,
Pole,
The Modern Lovers,
the Soft Cell,
Hasil Adkins,
The Smiths,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
Carl Craig,
Mad Mike,
Smog,
Faraquet,
Mark Hollis,
The Tremeloes,
Joe Smooth,
Flash Fearless,
Pierre Henry,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Marmalade,
Crooked Eye,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
The Shadows of Knight,
Cameo,
Chris & Cosey,
Liaisons Dangereuses,
Sexual Harrassment,
Aswad,
The Jesus and Mary Chain,
Young Marble Giants,
Animal Collective,
June of 44,
Clear Light,
Motorama,
Zero Boys,
the Association,
Inner City,
Ludus,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
The Seeds, The Seeds, The Seeds, The Seeds.
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.