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 Antigua and from Lyon.
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 1961 to 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Madrid and Tehran.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Philadelphia 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 1973 at the first Television practice in a loft in New York.
I was working on the theremin sounds with much patience.
I was there when Robert Palmer 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 Michelle Simonal to the crunk kids.
I played it at Trash.
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 Desert Stars. All the underground hits.
All Marine Girls tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Warren Ellis record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal jazz hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a rhodes and a güiro and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Eddi Front record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a spring reverb.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Delta 5,
One Last Wish,
Subhumans,
Camberwell Now,
Electric Light Orchestra,
Interpol,
It's A Beautiful Day,
Das Ding,
Yusef Lateef,
Intrusion,
Agent Orange,
Max Romeo,
Shuggie Otis,
The Blues Magoos,
The Young Rascals,
Faraquet,
Gian Franco Pienzio,
Dorothy Ashby,
Be Bop Deluxe,
Fluxion,
This Heat,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
Erykah Badu,
Mars,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Moby Grape,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
Mandrill,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
kango's stein massive,
The Golliwogs,
Letta Mbulu,
Cecil Taylor,
LL Cool J,
Bobbi Humphrey,
Moss Icon,
The New Christs,
Adolescents,
Flipper,
The United States of America,
Jacques Brel,
Brothers Johnson,
Tom Boy,
Harry Pussy,
Albert Ayler,
MDC,
Neil Young,
Lower 48,
Rufus Thomas,
The Remains,
New Order,
Livin' Joy,
The Moleskins,
Surgeon,
Blake Baxter,
Television Personalities,
Howard Jones,
The Beau Brummels,
H. Thieme,
The Skatalites,
ABBA,
Thinking Fellers Union Local 282,
Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft,
Thompson Twins,
Aaron Thompson, Aaron Thompson, Aaron Thompson, Aaron Thompson.
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.