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 Malta and from Beijing.
But I was there.
I was there in 1983.
I was there at the first Lewis show in Vancouver.
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 1960 to 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Lagos and Taipei.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Copenhagen 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 linndrum sounds with much patience.
I was there when Robert Palmer 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 John Lydon to the rock 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 Neu!. All the underground hits.
All Bauhaus tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Ten City record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rock 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 a güiro and a theremin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Harmonia record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a clarinet.
I hear that you and your band have sold your clarinet and bought a chamberlin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
Intrusion,
Gian Franco Pienzio,
Oneida,
Bronski Beat,
Jesper Dahlback,
The Last Poets,
Faust,
The Cosmic Jokers,
Chris & Cosey,
Radio Birdman,
Dorothy Ashby,
Crash Course in Science,
Darondo,
Skriet,
Gabor Szabo,
Circle Jerks,
Altered Images,
Tomorrow,
The Modern Lovers,
Black Bananas,
Joey Negro,
The Sonics,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
June of 44,
Electric Light Orchestra,
Hoover,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
David McCallum,
The Barracudas,
Marvin Gaye,
Zero Boys,
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band,
Kerri Chandler,
Jeff Lynne,
Japan,
Radiopuhelimet,
Alton Ellis,
Donald Byrd,
Soulsonic Force,
Jerry Gold Smith,
Maleditus Sound,
It's A Beautiful Day,
Livin' Joy,
The J.B.'s,
Nick Fraelich,
The Alarm Clocks,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
Electric Prunes,
Boredoms,
Don Cherry,
Dead Boys,
Tommy Roe,
Johnny Osbourne,
Jeff Mills,
Drexciya,
Terry Callier,
Amon Düül,
The Victims,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band, Lafayette Afro Rock Band, Lafayette Afro Rock Band, Lafayette Afro Rock Band.
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.