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 Japan and from London.
But I was there.
I was there in 1971.
I was there at the first Selda show in Istanbul.
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 1968 to 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Stockholm and Portland.
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 synthesizer 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 The Cowsills to the rock 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 Crooked Eye. All the underground hits.
All Lebanon Hanover tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Young Marble Giants 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 '50s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying an organ and a mellotron and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Sunsets and Hearts record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a theremin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a rhodes.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Peter and Kerry,
Essential Logic,
China Crisis,
Drexciya,
Robert Wyatt,
The Alarm Clocks,
Smog,
Al Stewart,
Motorama,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
Jesper Dahlback,
The Victims,
Infiniti,
The Litter,
The Five Americans,
Depeche Mode,
London Community Gospel Choir,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Nation of Ulysses,
Soul II Soul,
Sun City Girls,
Lungfish,
Model 500,
Kango’s Stein Massive,
Marshall Jefferson,
Nils Olav,
These Immortal Souls,
Peter & Gordon,
The Gap Band,
Tears for Fears,
Sam Rivers,
F. McDonald,
Grauzone,
Khruangbin,
Dawn Penn,
Skarface,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
Pet Shop Boys,
Joyce Sims,
June Days,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
Sugar Minott,
Roxy Music,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
Funky Four + One,
Derrick Morgan,
A Flock of Seagulls,
the Swans,
Black Flag,
48th St. Collective,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
Marc Romboy vs. Booka Shade,
Pulsallama,
Section 25,
Beasts of Bourbon,
Flamin' Groovies,
Negative Approach,
Nico,
U.S. Maple,
Monolake,
The Birthday Party,
Mission of Burma, Mission of Burma, Mission of Burma, Mission of Burma.
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.