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 Turkey and from Woodstock.
But I was there.
I was there in 1979.
I was there at the first Second Layer show in South London.
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 1963 to 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Bremen and Bremen.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Bremen 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 808 sounds with much patience.
I was there when Donald Fagen 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 The Moody Blues to the rock kids.
I played it at the Astoria.
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 Rotary Connection. All the underground hits.
All Nas tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Sun Ra record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grunge 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 güiro and a 808 and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Altered Images record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a 808.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a sitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
a-ha,
Liaisons Dangereuses,
Sun Ra,
Agent Orange,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
Throbbing Gristle,
The Dirtbombs,
The Mighty Diamonds,
Avey Tare,
Liliput,
Tom Boy,
Eric Copeland,
Severed Heads,
Masters at Work,
The Real Kids,
Ultravox,
Dual Sessions,
Matthew Halsall,
Dorothy Ashby,
The Music Machine,
FM Einheit,
Quadrant,
Chris Corsano,
Joensuu 1685,
Gerry Rafferty,
The American Breed,
Nas,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
The New Christs,
Howard Jones,
Electric Light Orchestra,
Country Teasers,
Arcadia,
Banda Bassotti,
Surgeon,
World's Most,
Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx,
Yazoo,
Joyce Sims,
Isaac Hayes,
Ice-T,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
8 Eyed Spy,
Newcleus,
Neil Young,
Drive Like Jehu,
The Martian,
Niagra,
Eurythmics,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
Television Personalities,
The Gories,
Eric Dolphy,
Guru Guru,
The Angels of Light,
Letta Mbulu,
Second Layer,
Sexual Harrassment,
Goldenarms,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
Ash Ra Tempel,
Jimmy McGriff, Jimmy McGriff, Jimmy McGriff, Jimmy McGriff.
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.