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 Germany and from Winnipeg.
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 1967 to 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Delhi and Houston.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Stockholm 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 sitar 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 Pole to the jazz kids.
I played it at CBGB's.
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 The Cure. All the underground hits.
All Joy Division tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Vainqueur record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal disco 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 a güiro and an oboe and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Brothers Johnson record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a spring reverb.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
MDC,
Radiohead,
Pylon,
The Associates,
The Fortunes,
The Dave Clark Five,
Urselle,
Aloha Tigers,
Pagans,
Faraquet,
Rapeman,
Robert Wyatt,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Nick Fraelich,
The Barracudas,
The Sound,
Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
New York Dolls,
The Trojans,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Darondo,
Danielle Patucci,
Glenn Branca,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
Soft Machine,
8 Eyed Spy,
the Association,
The Five Americans,
The Moody Blues,
Black Pus,
Bizarre Inc.,
B.T. Express,
Shuggie Otis,
Thee Headcoats,
The Peanut Butter Conspiracy,
Dual Sessions,
Deepchord,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
Bootsy's Rubber Band,
Qualms,
The Men They Couldn't Hang,
T.S.O.L.,
The Move,
Eve St. Jones,
Cymande,
James Chance & The Contortions,
Isaac Hayes,
Deadbeat,
Gabor Szabo,
Nik Kershaw,
Monks,
A Flock of Seagulls,
Derrick Morgan,
Quando Quango,
The Walker Brothers,
Guru Guru,
Smog,
The Mighty Diamonds,
H. Thieme,
X-101, X-101, X-101, X-101.
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.