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 Romania and from Seoul.
But I was there.
I was there in 1976.
I was there at the first Soft Boys show in Cambridge.
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 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Jakarta and Paris.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Columbus 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 The Zeros to the crunk 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 Organ. All the underground hits.
All Alison Limerick tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Grandmaster Flash 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 '70s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a synthesizer and an arpeggiator and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Yellowson record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Crispian St. Peters,
the Normal,
MDC,
X-Ray Spex,
Motorama,
Can,
Black Bananas,
Bizarre Inc.,
Ash Ra Tempel,
World's Most,
CMW,
Japan,
The Raincoats,
Tomorrow,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
The Pop Group,
Gil Scott Heron,
kango's stein massive,
Fear,
Nils Olav,
Au Pairs,
Marmalade,
Grey Daturas,
James Chance & The Contortions,
Minutemen,
Camberwell Now,
Unwound,
Panda Bear,
Don Cherry,
ABBA,
Fela Kuti,
Alphaville,
Teenage Jesus and the Jerks,
Jacques Brel,
Bobbi Humphrey,
Lalann,
Crime,
Junior Murvin,
Yazoo,
X-102,
Infiniti,
Excepter,
Sexual Harrassment,
Tropical Tobacco,
Erasure,
Livin' Joy,
Guru Guru,
Aural Exciters,
F. McDonald,
Pagans,
Gastr Del Sol,
Sam Rivers,
Vainqueur,
Andrew Hill,
Gang Gang Dance,
Q65,
Boz Scaggs,
Tom Boy,
The Buckinghams,
The Mojo Men,
Ronnie Foster,
Soul Sonic Force,
Minny Pops, Minny Pops, Minny Pops, Minny Pops.
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.