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 Portland.
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 1968 to 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Seoul and Mumbai.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Bologna 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 clarinet sounds with much patience.
I was there when Lou Reed 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 Isaac Hayes to the rock kids.
I played it at CBGB's.
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 Funkadelic. All the underground hits.
All Groovy Waters tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Jesus and Mary Chain 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 '50s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a güiro and a chamberlin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Ronnie Foster record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your marimba and bought an oboe.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a marimba.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Agitation Free,
Gong,
Roxy Music,
Marine Girls,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
EPMD,
The Dirtbombs,
Cal Tjader,
A Certain Ratio,
The Fugs,
Lakeside,
Boogie Down Productions,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
The Evens,
AZ,
Grauzone,
Thee Headcoats,
Deakin,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Danielle Patucci,
Scan 7,
the Bar-Kays,
Mandrill,
The Happenings,
Tropical Tobacco,
Cecil Taylor,
Livin' Joy,
Country Teasers,
London Community Gospel Choir,
Jeru the Damaja,
Sun City Girls,
Aaron Thompson,
Outsiders,
Girls At Our Best!,
Robert Görl,
Liliput,
Clear Light,
Frankie Knuckles,
Joe Finger,
Flipper,
Public Image Ltd.,
Television Personalities,
Jacob Miller,
Altered Images,
Nas,
Sly & The Family Stone,
48th St. Collective,
David Axelrod,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
Das Ding,
Scrapy,
Con Funk Shun,
Angry Samoans,
Duran Duran,
Scott Walker,
Peter and Kerry,
The Detroit Cobras,
Fugazi,
Pharoah Sanders,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
Roy Ayers,
Marvin Gaye, Marvin Gaye, Marvin Gaye, Marvin Gaye.
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.