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 Tokyo.
But I was there.
I was there in 1967.
I was there at the first Rodriguez show in Detroit.
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 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in London and Columbus.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Tokyo 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 oboe sounds with much patience.
I was there when Nile Rodgers 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 Peter & Gordon to the crunk kids.
I played it at the Crocodile.
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 David McCallum. All the underground hits.
All Trumans Water tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Real Kids record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal jazz 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 an arpeggiator and a guitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Juan Atkins record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a theremin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought an oboe.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
The Electric Prunes,
Robert Görl,
Avey Tare,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
The Beau Brummels,
a-ha,
Kevin Saunderson,
Lee Hazlewood,
Joy Division,
Marcia Griffiths,
Dead Boys,
X-Ray Spex,
Graham Central Station,
Boogie Down Productions,
Jawbox,
Jesper Dahlback,
Scan 7,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
Unwound,
Oppenheimer Analysis,
Slave,
X-101,
Spandau Ballet,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
Smog,
Ohio Players,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
Aloha Tigers,
Sister Nancy,
Procol Harum,
Todd Terry,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
cv313,
Sight & Sound,
Eric B and Rakim,
The Gories,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
The Mojo Men,
Fluxion,
The Victims,
The Peanut Butter Conspiracy,
Livin' Joy,
Kings Of Tomorrow,
Organ,
Eve St. Jones,
Suicide,
Man Eating Sloth,
Wire,
John Lydon,
Silicon Teens,
Country Teasers,
The Invisible,
Crispy Ambulance,
Cecil Taylor,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
Drive Like Jehu,
The Fire Engines,
Sonic Youth, Sonic Youth, Sonic Youth, Sonic Youth.
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.