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 Hungary and from Bologna.
But I was there.
I was there in 1976.
I was there at the first Buzzcocks show in Bolton.
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 1966 to 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Seoul and Lyon.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Winnipeg 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 Donald Fagen 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 Alice Coltrane to the grunge 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 EPMD. All the underground hits.
All Joey Negro 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 grime hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a mellotron and a guitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Seeds record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a rhodes.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Slackers,
UT,
Theoretical Girls,
The Neon Judgement,
The Moleskins,
Cecil Taylor,
Henry Cow,
The J.B.'s,
Strawberry Alarm Clock,
Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson,
Thompson Twins,
Cymande,
The Peanut Butter Conspiracy,
Black Sheep,
The Velvet Underground,
Niagra,
The Victims,
Mo-Dettes,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Roy Ayers,
The Motions,
Chris Corsano,
Skaos,
Yusef Lateef,
Arcadia,
The Blackbyrds,
The Five Americans,
Rites of Spring,
Masters at Work,
Frankie Knuckles,
Blossom Toes,
Au Pairs,
Maurizio,
Swell Maps,
Ludus,
Bootsy's Rubber Band,
Terry Callier,
Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme,
Urselle,
Gian Franco Pienzio,
DJ Sneak,
Qualms,
MC5,
Zero Boys,
Stetsasonic,
Beasts of Bourbon,
Delta 5,
8 Eyed Spy,
Gang of Four,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
The Dave Clark Five,
Outsiders,
Schoolly D,
Jawbox,
Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines,
The Gun Club,
Mandrill,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
Bronski Beat,
The Move,
Fear,
The Vogues,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
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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.