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 Ethiopia and from Bremen.
But I was there.
I was there in 1979.
I was there at the first Josef K show in Edinburgh.
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 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Delhi and Winnipeg.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Delhi 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 rhodes sounds with much patience.
I was there when Holger Czukay 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 Angels of Light & Akron/Family to the rock kids.
I played it at the 40 Watt.
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 Little Man. All the underground hits.
All The Men They Couldn't Hang tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal funk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a güiro and a mellotron and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a the Slits record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a spring reverb.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a chamberlin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
Hashim,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Electric Prunes,
Grandmaster Flash,
The Doobie Brothers,
Eli Mardock,
Strawberry Alarm Clock,
Popol Vuh,
FM Einheit,
Bootsy's Rubber Band,
The Walker Brothers,
Ice-T,
the Bar-Kays,
The Shadows of Knight,
Minnie Riperton,
New Order,
Metal Thangz,
The Cramps,
Mad Mike,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
Mark Hollis,
The Remains,
Eyeless In Gaza,
Dark Day,
Japan,
Teenage Jesus and the Jerks,
Sight & Sound,
David McCallum,
Trumans Water,
Avey Tare,
Mantronix,
Black Pus,
Urselle,
Albert Ayler,
Patti Smith,
Heaven 17,
Negative Approach,
Shoche,
Sixth Finger,
Pantytec,
Skriet,
Spoonie Gee,
Sister Nancy,
Country Joe & The Fish,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
Delon & Dalcan,
Steve Hackett,
The New Christs,
Amon Düül,
Jesper Dahlback,
Ronan,
Jerry's Kids,
B.T. Express,
Sonic Youth,
D'Angelo,
Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines,
Slave,
Leonard Cohen,
The Residents,
The Barracudas,
Aloha Tigers, Aloha Tigers, Aloha Tigers, Aloha Tigers.
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.