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 Albania and from Paris.
But I was there.
I was there in 1973.
I was there at the first Television show in New York.
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 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Spokane and Sao Paulo.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Woodstock 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 harpsichord sounds with much patience.
I was there when Nile Rodgers 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 the Bar-Kays to the jazz kids.
I played it at the Spitz.
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 The Mighty Diamonds. All the underground hits.
All Second Layer tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The New Christs 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 '80s.
I hear you're buying a synthesizer and a mellotron and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Blossom Toes record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your güiro and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a güiro.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Sun Ra Arkestra,
Robert Wyatt,
FM Einheit,
The Toasters,
Terrestrial Tones,
The Offenders,
Alton Ellis,
Nirvana,
Arcadia,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
The Gun Club,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Infiniti,
Ultra Naté,
The Index,
Accadde A,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Brand Nubian,
AZ,
Radio Birdman,
Japan,
Jandek,
Cluster,
Chrome,
The Associates,
Brass Construction,
Unrelated Segments,
Pole,
MDC,
Danielle Patucci,
Qualms,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
James Chance & The Contortions,
Dawn Penn,
Nils Olav,
Fatback Band,
Flipper,
Jerry's Kids,
Lebanon Hanover,
The Slits,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
Kas Product,
Gian Franco Pienzio,
Icehouse,
Mark Hollis,
Derrick May,
Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson,
Erasure,
Marshall Jefferson,
Bizarre Inc.,
Cabaret Voltaire,
D'Angelo,
Lucky Dragons,
The Velvet Underground,
Goldenarms,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
Underground Resistance,
Tears for Fears,
U.S. Maple, U.S. Maple, U.S. Maple, U.S. Maple.
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.