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 China and from Copenhagen.
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 1967 to 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Halifax and Calgary.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Milan 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 808 sounds with much patience.
I was there when Lou Reed 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 Slick Rick to the grime kids.
I played it at the 40 Watt.
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 Magazine. All the underground hits.
All Organ tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal funk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a synthesizer and a snare and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a güiro.
I hear that you and your band have sold your güiro and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Ponytail,
Popol Vuh,
Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines,
Icehouse,
Fatback Band,
Shuggie Otis,
Excepter,
Flamin' Groovies,
Selector Dub Narcotic,
Quadrant,
Goldenarms,
Black Bananas,
Saccharine Trust,
Patti Smith,
The Fuzztones,
Average White Band,
Robert Wyatt,
Barclay James Harvest,
Carl Craig,
Sandy B,
The Cramps,
The Blackbyrds,
Negative Approach,
Ken Boothe,
Scan 7,
Los Fastidios,
Black Pus,
Piero Umiliani,
The Alarm Clocks,
Jeff Lynne,
Lebanon Hanover,
China Crisis,
UT,
Danielle Patucci,
Stetsasonic,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
Aswad,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
Ludus,
Junior Murvin,
Masters at Work,
The Men They Couldn't Hang,
Country Joe & The Fish,
The Cosmic Jokers,
Crash Course in Science,
Sonic Youth,
Smog,
Strawberry Alarm Clock,
U.S. Maple,
Cabaret Voltaire,
The Evens,
Brass Construction,
Girls At Our Best!,
The Barracudas,
Funkadelic,
Terrestrial Tones,
Arcadia,
the Normal,
Warren Ellis,
Cal Tjader,
The Move,
The Motions,
Spandau Ballet, Spandau Ballet, Spandau Ballet, Spandau Ballet.
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.