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 Haiti and from Paris.
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 1961 to 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Portland and Edmonton.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Bologna 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 theremin sounds with much patience.
I was there when Lou Reed 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 Sly & The Family Stone to the punk kids.
I played it at the Crocodile.
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 Guru Guru. All the underground hits.
All Massinfluence tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Scientists record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal jazz hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a harpsichord and a sitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Soul Sonic Force record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a 808.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a rhodes.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
Ice-T,
R.M.O.,
Donald Byrd,
The Human League,
Scratch Acid,
The Dave Clark Five,
Second Layer,
The Slits,
Lindisfarne,
Charles Mingus,
Jerry Gold Smith,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
Pharoah Sanders,
Bobby Sherman,
Sparks,
Kerri Chandler,
Eric B and Rakim,
Sun Ra,
Lower 48,
Joyce Sims,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
Sugar Minott,
10cc,
Sound Behaviour,
A Flock of Seagulls,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Pole,
Soul Sonic Force,
The Sonics,
EPMD,
Sarah Menescal,
Harmonia,
The Stooges,
The Gap Band,
Todd Rundgren,
X-101,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
Television,
The Misunderstood,
Magma,
It's A Beautiful Day,
Camouflage,
One Last Wish,
Bizarre Inc.,
Con Funk Shun,
Q and Not U,
Theoretical Girls,
Nils Olav,
Cabaret Voltaire,
Kenny Larkin,
Ponytail,
Angry Samoans,
Visage,
Adolescents,
Reuben Wilson,
Bush Tetras,
Dave Gahan,
The Blues Magoos,
Sällskapet,
The Mighty Diamonds,
The Real Kids,
Rekid, Rekid, Rekid, Rekid.
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.