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 San Marino and from Stockholm.
But I was there.
I was there in 1987.
I was there at the first Nirvana show in Seattle.
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 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Johannesburg and Stockholm.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Cairo 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 organ sounds with much patience.
I was there when Captain Beefheart 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 Eden Ahbez to the rock 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 Yellowson. All the underground hits.
All The Names tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Matthew Halsall record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal crunk 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 an organ and a synthesizer and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Kinks record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a chamberlin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Wally Richardson,
The Doobie Brothers,
Glenn Branca,
Make Up,
Monks,
Girls At Our Best!,
a-ha,
Minny Pops,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
PIL,
The Litter,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Scientists,
Cybotron,
World's Most,
Groovy Waters,
Gang Starr,
Von Mondo,
The Wake,
JFA,
The Smoke,
Lalo Schifrin,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
Warren Ellis,
Todd Terry,
Joyce Sims,
Roxette,
Grandmaster Flash,
Rhythm & Sound,
Roger Hodgson,
Pylon,
Nik Kershaw,
Cluster,
Scratch Acid,
48th St. Collective,
Brass Construction,
Average White Band,
La Düsseldorf,
Frankie Knuckles,
Q and Not U,
Leonard Cohen,
The Modern Lovers,
Shoche,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Louis and Bebe Barron,
Desert Stars,
Fear,
Main Source,
Ornette Coleman,
Zapp,
X-101,
Flamin' Groovies,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
Thee Headcoats,
The Martian,
Max Romeo,
Glambeats Corp.,
Black Bananas,
Fort Wilson Riot,
Symarip,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu, Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu, Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu, Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu.
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.