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 Bahrain and from Mexico City.
But I was there.
I was there in .
I was there at the first Suicide show in New York.
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 1964 to 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Lille and Lyon.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Beijing 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 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 Moss Icon to the techno 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 Silicon Teens. All the underground hits.
All Skarface tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Marc Almond record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grunge 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 linndrum and an organ and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Soulsonic Force record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your harpsichord and bought an organ.
I hear that you and your band have sold your organ and bought a harpsichord.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Cameo,
Sandy B,
Andrew Hill,
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
In Retrospect,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Y Pants,
Chrome,
The Toasters,
The Walker Brothers,
Sarah Menescal,
KRS-One,
John Lydon,
Leonard Cohen,
Buzzcocks,
Scan 7,
The Misunderstood,
Q65,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
Reagan Youth,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
Jeru the Damaja,
Nation of Ulysses,
Thompson Twins,
Masters at Work,
The Knickerbockers,
Schoolly D,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
X-101,
Index,
The Young Rascals,
Alton Ellis,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
John Coltrane,
Bluetip,
Organ,
Monks,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
Camberwell Now,
the Soft Cell,
Talk Talk,
Liliput,
Rod Modell,
Lou Reed,
Negative Approach,
Wings,
Scratch Acid,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Flash Fearless,
Dorothy Ashby,
Swell Maps,
Terry Callier,
Warren Ellis,
The Associates,
Model 500,
Be Bop Deluxe,
Excepter,
Todd Terry,
Joe Smooth, Joe Smooth, Joe Smooth, Joe Smooth.
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.