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 New Zealand and from Glasgow.
But I was there.
I was there in 1975.
I was there at the first Ubu show in Cleveland.
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 1966 to 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Bologna and Spokane.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Hong Kong 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 snare 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 Soulsonic Force to the crunk 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 China Crisis. All the underground hits.
All Toni Rubio tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Dirtbombs record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rap hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a güiro and a snare and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Drive Like Jehu record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your güiro and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a güiro.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Amon Düül,
CMW,
Roger Hodgson,
The Standells,
Yusef Lateef,
PIL,
Young Marble Giants,
Dorothy Ashby,
Alice Coltrane,
Lalo Schifrin,
Kool Moe Dee,
Godley & Creme,
EPMD,
Visage,
Nick Fraelich,
F. McDonald,
Sandy B,
Eli Mardock,
Grey Daturas,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
Pussy Galore,
Sam Rivers,
Eddi Front,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
Average White Band,
Scott Walker,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Mandrill,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Masters at Work,
L. Decosne,
ABC,
the Swans,
Technova,
Barrington Levy,
Ituana,
Mark Hollis,
The Invisible,
OOIOO,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
These Immortal Souls,
Aural Exciters,
Rekid,
World's Most,
Jesper Dahlback,
The Offenders,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
Gastr Del Sol,
Dead Boys,
Juan Atkins,
Bobby Womack,
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
Crash Course in Science,
The Names,
Piero Umiliani,
Zero Boys,
Fluxion,
Sparks,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
John Coltrane,
Howard Jones,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron, Terror Squad Feat. Camron, Terror Squad Feat. Camron, Terror Squad Feat. Camron.
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.