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 Cuba and from Columbus.
But I was there.
I was there in 1976.
I was there at the first Feelies show in Haledon.
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 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Stockholm and Manila.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Calgary 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 mellotron 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 CMW to the techno 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 Tom Boy. All the underground hits.
All Stiv Bators tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Parry Music 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 '60s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a spring reverb and a rhodes and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought an oboe.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a mellotron.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Tropical Tobacco,
Gang of Four,
The Cowsills,
Agent Orange,
The Cramps,
Jeff Lynne,
Judy Mowatt,
Ituana,
Rufus Thomas,
Leonard Cohen,
Public Image Ltd.,
Tommy Roe,
T. Rex,
Cluster,
Dual Sessions,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
Frankie Knuckles,
Talk Talk,
Mary Jane Girls,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
In Retrospect,
Wire,
Technova,
Byron Stingily,
Eden Ahbez,
The Searchers,
The New Christs,
FM Einheit,
June Days,
Minor Threat,
Quadrant,
Niagra,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
The Dirtbombs,
The Mighty Diamonds,
Massinfluence,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Joe Smooth,
Girls At Our Best!,
cv313,
Pylon,
X-102,
48th St. Collective,
Mars,
Underground Resistance,
Gang Gang Dance,
Jandek,
The Grass Roots,
The Modern Lovers,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
Man Parrish,
The Dave Clark Five,
This Heat,
The Last Poets,
Brand Nubian,
Sonny Sharrock,
Joey Negro,
Vladislav Delay,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
Radiohead, Radiohead, Radiohead, Radiohead.
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.