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 Czech Republic and from Copenhagen.
But I was there.
I was there in 1971.
I was there at the first Big Star show in Memphis.
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 Accra and Mexico City.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Lyon 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 1967 at the first Rodriguez practice in a loft in Detroit.
I was working on the organ sounds with much patience.
I was there when Captain Beefheart 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 MDC to the rock kids.
I played it at the Troubador.
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 Adolescents. All the underground hits.
All Soft Machine tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every A Certain Ratio record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal crunk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a chamberlin and a spring reverb and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a 808.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Bad Manners,
Fear,
Half Japanese,
Isaac Hayes,
Reuben Wilson,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Depeche Mode,
Yaz,
The Cowsills,
The Busters,
Television,
Khruangbin,
Metal Thangz,
Mary Jane Girls,
The American Breed,
LL Cool J,
Sonic Youth,
Toni Rubio,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
The Techniques,
The Music Machine,
Judy Mowatt,
Arab on Radar,
The Raincoats,
Zero Boys,
Jeff Lynne,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
Television Personalities,
Fifty Foot Hose,
Severed Heads,
Ralphi Rosario,
Tom Boy,
Beasts of Bourbon,
One Last Wish,
Schoolly D,
The Real Kids,
Radiopuhelimet,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
The Toasters,
The Stooges,
Flipper,
Young Marble Giants,
Hot Snakes,
Underground Resistance,
Lower 48,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
Jerry Gold Smith,
Shuggie Otis,
Be Bop Deluxe,
Moby Grape,
Kevin Saunderson,
Audionom,
Harpers Bizarre,
Eric Dolphy,
Lou Reed,
The Pretty Things,
The Evens,
Fat Boys,
New York Dolls,
Urselle,
Tubeway Army, Tubeway Army, Tubeway Army, Tubeway Army.
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.