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 Argentina and from Jakarta.
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 1967 to 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Lille and Salvador.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school London 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 1973 at the first Television practice in a loft in New York.
I was working on the spring reverb sounds with much patience.
I was there when David Bowie 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 Anthony Braxton to the jazz kids.
I played it at the Astoria.
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 Rhythm & Sound. All the underground hits.
All Technova tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Golliwogs 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 '80s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying an organ and a mellotron and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Leonard Cohen record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a sitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a mellotron.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Gabor Szabo,
The United States of America,
Von Mondo,
Section 25,
Slave,
Fifty Foot Hose,
Sällskapet,
X-Ray Spex,
Youth Brigade,
Glambeats Corp.,
Lebanon Hanover,
Altered Images,
Dennis Brown,
Basic Channel,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
Unwound,
Kevin Saunderson,
Barbara Tucker,
Mo-Dettes,
The Tremeloes,
The Fall,
The Kinks,
The Real Kids,
Roxy Music,
Jacob Miller,
Curtis Mayfield,
Darondo,
Y Pants,
Scott Walker,
Trumans Water,
David Axelrod,
The Grass Roots,
Buzzcocks,
Public Enemy,
Eurythmics,
Subhumans,
Alton Ellis,
Gian Franco Pienzio,
Radio Birdman,
The American Breed,
Mr. Review,
The Stooges,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
E-Dancer,
Eric Copeland,
Leonard Cohen,
Brand Nubian,
ABBA,
Lindisfarne,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Tommy Roe,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
Neu!,
Qualms,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
Black Moon,
The Gories,
Brothers Johnson,
Robert Hood,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
Joensuu 1685,
Skaos,
Neil Young,
Amon Düül, Amon Düül, Amon Düül, Amon Düül.
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.