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 Korea South and from Jakarta.
But I was there.
I was there in 2001.
I was there at the first Tiga show in Montreal.
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 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Manila and Paris.
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 spring reverb sounds with much patience.
I was there when Michael McDonald 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 The Mojo Men to the grime 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 Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo. All the underground hits.
All Scrapy tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Arcadia record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal punk 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 snare and a rhodes and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Eurythmics record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your harpsichord and bought a sitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a harpsichord.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Junior Murvin,
This Heat,
Whodini,
Jacob Miller,
David McCallum,
The Cosmic Jokers,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Alton Ellis,
Symarip,
Easy Going,
Brothers Johnson,
cv313,
Sandy B,
Kurtis Blow,
Ohio Players,
Mad Mike,
Bob Dylan,
Schoolly D,
Oneida,
ABC,
Archie Shepp,
Mary Jane Girls,
Electric Light Orchestra,
Duran Duran,
Yellowson,
Joe Finger,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
Iggy Pop,
The Human League,
Deadbeat,
Nick Fraelich,
Liliput,
Arthur Verocai,
Circle Jerks,
Panda Bear,
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
Boogie Down Productions,
Underground Resistance,
Avey Tare,
Fela Kuti,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Lou Christie,
John Lydon,
MDC,
The Flesh Eaters,
Steve Hackett,
Danielle Patucci,
The Dead C,
Eric Dolphy,
Gang of Four,
Sound Behaviour,
Agitation Free,
Susan Cadogan,
Lindisfarne,
Cal Tjader,
Johnny Clarke,
Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft,
Althea and Donna,
Q and Not U,
Cheater Slicks,
Lou Reed & Metallica, Lou Reed & Metallica, Lou Reed & Metallica, Lou Reed & Metallica.
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.