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 Sweden and from Taipei.
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 1965 to 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Calgary and Mexico City.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Jakarta 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 1970 at the first Onyeabor practice in a loft in Enugu.
I was working on the guitar 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 Robert Wyatt to the electroclash kids.
I played it at the Troubador.
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 Pet Shop Boys. All the underground hits.
All Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Jawbox record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal crunk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying an organ and a guitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a spring reverb.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Depeche Mode,
Joey Negro,
Matthew Halsall,
Neil Young,
The Gladiators,
Brass Construction,
Gichy Dan,
Duran Duran,
Godley & Creme,
Magazine,
The Pop Group,
Warsaw,
Stiv Bators,
June of 44,
Eden Ahbez,
Bronski Beat,
Nirvana,
Man Parrish,
Harmonia,
Black Pus,
AZ,
Sex Pistols,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
Howard Jones,
Pharoah Sanders,
Alphaville,
Los Fastidios,
Make Up,
Mars,
Barbara Tucker,
Smog,
Electric Light Orchestra,
UT,
John Cale,
Scientists,
Scan 7,
Lower 48,
Agitation Free,
Maleditus Sound,
Symarip,
The Shadows of Knight,
The United States of America,
Ornette Coleman,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Crispy Ambulance,
The Remains,
Dennis Brown,
Joe Smooth,
Banda Bassotti,
The Blackbyrds,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
Althea and Donna,
Mo-Dettes,
Terrestrial Tones,
Flipper,
Ossler,
Johnny Osbourne,
The Jesus and Mary Chain,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
the Slits,
The Knickerbockers, The Knickerbockers, The Knickerbockers, The Knickerbockers.
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.