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 Vietnam and from Beijing.
But I was there.
I was there in 1977.
I was there at the first Zapp show in Hamilton.
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 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Portland and Lyon.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Milan 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 organ sounds with much patience.
I was there when Tom Verlaine 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 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 Little Man. All the underground hits.
All Derrick Morgan tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Swell Maps record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal electroclash hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying an organ and a güiro and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The J.B.'s record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Rites of Spring,
Babytalk,
John Foxx,
Brand Nubian,
Marshall Jefferson,
Roxette,
The Blackbyrds,
Essential Logic,
Ludus,
Mad Mike,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Larry & the Blue Notes,
The Birthday Party,
Fifty Foot Hose,
Depeche Mode,
Jacques Brel,
Pierre Henry,
Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson,
Grandmaster Flash,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
Bill Near,
Flash Fearless,
Mantronix,
DJ Sneak,
Sam Rivers,
Kurtis Blow,
Terrestrial Tones,
Guru Guru,
The Golliwogs,
The Index,
Flamin' Groovies,
the Fania All-Stars,
Ash Ra Tempel,
The Beau Brummels,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
Organ,
Icehouse,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
The Young Rascals,
Tears for Fears,
Oblivians,
X-102,
The Five Americans,
Animal Collective,
Prince Buster,
LL Cool J,
Bob Dylan,
Kayak,
Fort Wilson Riot,
Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane,
Laurel Aitken,
Mary Jane Girls,
Severed Heads,
The Raincoats,
Neil Young,
Charles Mingus,
Freddie Wadling,
Janne Schatter,
Sun Ra,
In Retrospect,
cv313,
Joe Finger,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
Supertramp, Supertramp, Supertramp, Supertramp.
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.