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 Estonia and from Bologna.
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 1964 to 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Columbus and Woodstock.
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 1979 at the first Josef K practice in a loft in Edinburgh.
I was working on the sitar sounds with much patience.
I was there when Michael McDonald 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 Busters to the punk 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 Magazine. All the underground hits.
All MDC tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Swell Maps record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal punk 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 chamberlin and a rhodes and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Lyres record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought a mellotron.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a snare.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Doobie Brothers,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
The Neon Judgement,
In Retrospect,
Rufus Thomas,
Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme,
Aloha Tigers,
The Mummies,
Ossler,
Crime,
The American Breed,
Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane,
ABC,
World's Most,
Rites of Spring,
The Star Department,
Lightning Bolt,
Rosa Yemen,
Arab on Radar,
Lyres,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
Roy Ayers,
Mo-Dettes,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
Jeru the Damaja,
Man Parrish,
Essential Logic,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
The Buckinghams,
Franke,
Fugazi,
Bobby Womack,
kango's stein massive,
Amon Düül,
Outsiders,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Swans,
Pharoah Sanders,
Ultravox,
Guru Guru,
Echo & the Bunnymen,
Kayak,
The Red Krayola,
Eden Ahbez,
Rod Modell,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Janne Schatter,
The Standells,
Marc Romboy vs. Booka Shade,
Eric Dolphy,
Second Layer,
Chris & Cosey,
The Velvet Underground,
Pantytec,
Kas Product,
Flipper,
Freddie Wadling,
Brand Nubian,
Schoolly D,
Avey Tare's Slasher Flicks,
JFA,
Jerry Gold Smith,
Agent Orange, Agent Orange, Agent Orange, Agent Orange.
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.