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 Comoros and from Portland.
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 1967 to 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Seoul and Toronto.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Manila 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 1987 at the first Nirvana practice in a loft in Seattle.
I was working on the oboe 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 World's Most to the disco kids.
I played it at Cafe Wha.
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 Essential Logic. All the underground hits.
All Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Agent Orange record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal dance hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a linndrum and a 808 and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Ossler record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought an organ.
I hear that you and your band have sold your organ and bought a linndrum.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Lou Reed,
Lee Hazlewood,
Piero Umiliani,
Circle Jerks,
Bob Dylan,
Sister Nancy,
Curtis Mayfield,
It's A Beautiful Day,
Gregory Isaacs,
Warren Ellis,
Kool Moe Dee,
Second Layer,
Ronan,
Boz Scaggs,
Country Teasers,
Pere Ubu,
The Mummies,
JFA,
Sexual Harrassment,
Eyeless In Gaza,
These Immortal Souls,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
Brand Nubian,
Audionom,
Kenny Larkin,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
The Buckinghams,
The Move,
The Fall,
Yazoo,
Bang On A Can,
U.S. Maple,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
Youth Brigade,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
Brick,
Mandrill,
Surgeon,
Roy Ayers,
Lungfish,
The Monochrome Set,
Franke,
T. Rex,
Groovy Waters,
the Sonics,
The Birthday Party,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
Maurizio,
Swell Maps,
Heaven 17,
Roxette,
Aswad,
La Düsseldorf,
Junior Murvin,
Ralphi Rosario,
The Star Department,
FM Einheit,
MDC,
Gang Gang Dance,
Model 500,
Smog,
8 Eyed Spy,
Angels of Light & Akron/Family, Angels of Light & Akron/Family, Angels of Light & Akron/Family, Angels of Light & Akron/Family.
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.