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 France and from Tokyo.
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 1969 to 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Accra and Winnipeg.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Lagos 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 arpeggiator 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 F. McDonald to the jazz kids.
I played it at the Crocodile.
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 Roxette. All the underground hits.
All Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every KRS-One 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 '90s.
I hear you're buying a synthesizer and a sitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Durutti Column record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought an arpeggiator.
I hear that you and your band have sold your arpeggiator and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Gerry Rafferty,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Adolescents,
Magazine,
The Pop Group,
Nas,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Crispian St. Peters,
Sixth Finger,
Kaleidoscope,
Clear Light,
Eden Ahbez,
Marvin Gaye,
Jacques Brel,
Erykah Badu,
Reuben Wilson,
Deakin,
Ponytail,
La Düsseldorf,
Roy Ayers,
Oppenheimer Analysis,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
OOIOO,
Bang on a Can All-Stars,
Lungfish,
Neu!,
Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx,
LL Cool J,
Faraquet,
Roy Ayers Ubiquity,
Jandek,
Girls At Our Best!,
Wally Richardson,
Leonard Cohen,
Yazoo,
Glambeats Corp.,
The Angels of Light,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
Andrew Hill,
The Selecter,
Franke,
Skaos,
Fad Gadget,
Lalann,
Lower 48,
Reagan Youth,
The Invisible,
Althea and Donna,
Don Cherry,
Bootsy's Rubber Band,
Spoonie Gee,
James White and The Blacks,
Tommy Roe,
Zapp,
Flamin' Groovies,
Jerry's Kids,
Throbbing Gristle,
Anakelly,
the Association,
The Techniques,
David McCallum,
Agitation Free, Agitation Free, Agitation Free, Agitation Free.
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.