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 Cape Verde and from Delhi.
But I was there.
I was there in 1967.
I was there at the first Rodriguez show in Detroit.
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 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in London and Halifax.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Portland 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 chamberlin sounds with much patience.
I was there when Donald Fagen 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 Rotary Connection to the jazz 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 Model 500. All the underground hits.
All The Evens tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Soul Sonic Force record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal jazz 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 mellotron and a spring reverb and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a the Germs record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought a snare.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought a snare.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Blancmange,
Sister Nancy,
The Mojo Men,
John Foxx,
Newcleus,
Crooked Eye,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
Visage,
EPMD,
Sam Rivers,
Ronan,
The Barracudas,
James Chance & The Contortions,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
The Detroit Cobras,
The Fugs,
The American Breed,
Ossler,
Soft Machine,
New York Dolls,
Johnny Osbourne,
Procol Harum,
Scrapy,
AZ,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
Boogie Down Productions,
Echo & the Bunnymen,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
The Cramps,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
Black Moon,
Ultimate Spinach,
Electric Light Orchestra,
China Crisis,
Lower 48,
Magazine,
Quadrant,
Porter Ricks,
Monolake,
Andrew Hill,
Mandrill,
Absolute Body Control,
Infiniti,
Pantaleimon,
Panda Bear,
Delta 5,
Easy Going,
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
Mr. Review,
Loose Ends,
Scientists,
X-Ray Spex,
Deepchord,
ABBA,
Erykah Badu,
The Dirtbombs,
Bootsy Collins,
Crime,
The Index,
Cluster,
Scratch Acid, Scratch Acid, Scratch Acid, Scratch Acid.
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.