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 Vietnam and from Bremen.
But I was there.
I was there in 1976.
I was there at the first Chic 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 1962 to 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Beijing and Houston.
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 guitar 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 Scott Walker to the funk 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 Television. All the underground hits.
All Kayak tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Todd Rundgren 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 '70s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a marimba and a theremin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your organ and bought a marimba.
I hear that you and your band have sold your marimba and bought an organ.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Junior Murvin,
Warren Ellis,
Johnny Clarke,
Bush Tetras,
Cheater Slicks,
Yazoo,
Roxette,
Infiniti,
Ken Boothe,
Lindisfarne,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
Mad Mike,
Marshall Jefferson,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Cluster,
Gabor Szabo,
Crispy Ambulance,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
Inner City,
AZ,
Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx,
Terry Callier,
Fela Kuti,
Lebanon Hanover,
Kerrie Biddell,
Television Personalities,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Terrestrial Tones,
Avey Tare,
Masters at Work,
Larry & the Blue Notes,
8 Eyed Spy,
The Fall,
Ten City,
The Jesus and Mary Chain,
Average White Band,
Thompson Twins,
Charles Mingus,
Howard Jones,
Throbbing Gristle,
Q65,
Judy Mowatt,
Symarip,
Arab on Radar,
Delta 5,
Neu!,
Tim Buckley,
The Leaves,
Index,
James White and The Blacks,
Boogie Down Productions,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
Barclay James Harvest,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
Flash Fearless,
Rakim,
Model 500,
Interpol,
Rufus Thomas,
Bobby Sherman,
Tomorrow,
Cal Tjader, Cal Tjader, Cal Tjader, Cal Tjader.
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.