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 Mexico City.
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 1967 to 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Paris and Lyon.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Accra 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 güiro sounds with much patience.
I was there when Donald Fagen 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 Cymande to the punk kids.
I played it at the Spitz.
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 Mary Jane Girls. All the underground hits.
All Wasted Youth tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Aswad record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rock hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a güiro and a sitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Sunsets and Hearts record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your organ and bought a theremin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought an organ.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Japan,
Half Japanese,
Lightning Bolt,
Bobbi Humphrey,
Ten City,
The Dave Clark Five,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
The Gun Club,
Ralphi Rosario,
The Litter,
Quantec,
Aaron Thompson,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
Idris Muhammad,
Eric Dolphy,
Pet Shop Boys,
Ornette Coleman,
Louis and Bebe Barron,
John Cale,
Khruangbin,
Boogie Down Productions,
The Sound,
The Remains,
Kaleidoscope,
Josef K,
Ponytail,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Urselle,
Ronan,
Chrome,
Basic Channel,
Teenage Jesus and the Jerks,
Lalo Schifrin,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
Joyce Sims,
Scan 7,
Grandmaster Flash,
Letta Mbulu,
Country Teasers,
Pierre Henry,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Hot Snakes,
Jeff Lynne,
OOIOO,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
The Human League,
Talk Talk,
Marc Romboy vs. Booka Shade,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
The Angels of Light,
The Cramps,
Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines,
Be Bop Deluxe,
Eyeless In Gaza,
Sam Rivers,
Jerry Gold Smith,
Gil Scott Heron,
the Human League,
Silicon Teens, Silicon Teens, Silicon Teens, Silicon Teens.
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.