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 China and from Mumbai.
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 1967 to 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Jakarta and Paris.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Toronto 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 Selda practice in a loft in Istanbul.
I was working on the marimba sounds with much patience.
I was there when Tom Verlaine 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 Zero Boys to the jazz 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 Cheater Slicks. All the underground hits.
All The Cramps tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Bronski Beat 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 '80s.
I hear you're buying a clarinet and a synthesizer and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Ossler record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a rhodes.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Lou Christie,
Peter & Gordon,
The Dead C,
The Grass Roots,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
Spandau Ballet,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
Soulsonic Force,
Circle Jerks,
The Residents,
Eden Ahbez,
Tropical Tobacco,
Jerry Gold Smith,
Pantytec,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
John Cale,
Alphaville,
Donny Hathaway,
The Blues Magoos,
Panda Bear,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
Chris & Cosey,
Outsiders,
Erykah Badu,
T. Rex,
Japan,
a-ha,
The Fuzztones,
Unwound,
Traffic Nightmare,
The Music Machine,
Liliput,
UT,
Gil Scott Heron,
The Offenders,
MDC,
Unrelated Segments,
Pussy Galore,
Sexual Harrassment,
Gang Starr,
Eyeless In Gaza,
Shuggie Otis,
Metal Thangz,
The Dirtbombs,
Tommy Roe,
Charles Mingus,
Teenage Jesus and the Jerks,
Amon Düül,
Gang Gang Dance,
Louis and Bebe Barron,
Frankie Knuckles,
Neil Young,
The Victims,
The Moleskins,
The Electric Prunes,
Rapeman,
Surgeon,
Sister Nancy,
The Young Rascals,
Fifty Foot Hose, Fifty Foot Hose, Fifty Foot Hose, Fifty Foot Hose.
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.