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 Korea South and from Copenhagen.
But I was there.
I was there in .
I was there at the first Suicide show in New York.
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 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Manila and Cairo.
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 linndrum sounds with much patience.
I was there when David Bowie 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 Jimmy McGriff to the rock kids.
I played it at the Troubador.
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 X-101. All the underground hits.
All Massinfluence tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Ronan 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 '70s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a güiro and a linndrum and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Joe Smooth record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought an organ.
I hear that you and your band have sold your organ and bought a rhodes.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Nils Olav,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
Lebanon Hanover,
Monolake,
Kenny Larkin,
Teenage Jesus and the Jerks,
Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane,
Marc Romboy vs. Booka Shade,
Stetsasonic,
Bobby Womack,
Desert Stars,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Derrick Morgan,
Lungfish,
Iggy Pop,
Sound Behaviour,
Flash Fearless,
Erykah Badu,
The Angels of Light,
Crispian St. Peters,
John Holt,
Piero Umiliani,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
Marvin Gaye,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
Joey Negro,
The Mighty Diamonds,
Essential Logic,
Tears for Fears,
Electric Prunes,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
Mark Hollis,
Surgeon,
June of 44,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
Ralphi Rosario,
Kas Product,
The Vogues,
Glambeats Corp.,
Hoover,
Heaven 17,
The Saints,
Wally Richardson,
Rufus Thomas,
Morten Harket,
The Dead C,
It's A Beautiful Day,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
Drexciya,
ABBA,
Bronski Beat,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
Ponytail,
The Jesus and Mary Chain,
Moss Icon,
The Index,
Flamin' Groovies,
Icehouse,
Grauzone,
cv313,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
The Golliwogs,
Severed Heads,
Can,
Metal Thangz, Metal Thangz, Metal Thangz, Metal Thangz.
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.