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 Uganda and from Toronto.
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 1963 to 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Paris and Portland.
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 1971 at the first Big Star practice in a loft in Memphis.
I was working on the synthesizer 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 Simply Red to the grime kids.
I played it at Trash.
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 Buzzcocks. All the underground hits.
All Animal Collective tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Oblivians 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 '80s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying an oboe and a theremin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Delta 5 record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought an arpeggiator.
I hear that you and your band have sold your arpeggiator and bought an oboe.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Altered Images,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Babytalk,
Wire,
In Retrospect,
Nirvana,
Wolf Eyes,
World's Most,
The Sound,
Faraquet,
Lalann,
Stockholm Monsters,
The Golliwogs,
John Holt,
Pantytec,
The Fortunes,
John Foxx,
Juan Atkins,
Los Fastidios,
The Stooges,
Big Daddy Kane,
Skarface,
Kerri Chandler,
Bluetip,
One Last Wish,
Mark Hollis,
Dennis Brown,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Bill Near,
Yusef Lateef,
DJ Sneak,
Mo-Dettes,
Little Man,
Neil Young,
The Names,
Bobby Womack,
Magazine,
Lakeside,
The Sonics,
Crooked Eye,
Fad Gadget,
Alice Coltrane,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
La Düsseldorf,
Angry Samoans,
Icehouse,
Maurizio,
Moss Icon,
8 Eyed Spy,
New Age Steppers,
Electric Light Orchestra,
The Tremeloes,
The Moody Blues,
The Techniques,
The Real Kids,
Eli Mardock,
Morten Harket,
Pere Ubu,
Junior Murvin,
The Smoke,
Cal Tjader,
Pylon, Pylon, Pylon, Pylon.
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.