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 Bremen.
But I was there.
I was there in 1962.
I was there at the first Guess Who show in Winnipeg.
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 1962 to 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Houston and Lagos.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Hong Kong 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 mellotron sounds with much patience.
I was there when Holger Czukay 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 Andrew Hill to the electroclash 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 The Cowsills. All the underground hits.
All Delta 5 tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Happenings record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal disco 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 linndrum and a marimba and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Stooges record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a 808.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
Panda Bear,
Maleditus Sound,
Duran Duran,
The Gories,
The Cure,
The Evens,
Scott Walker,
kango's stein massive,
The Monochrome Set,
The Cowsills,
F. McDonald,
Lou Reed,
AZ,
Siglo XX,
Lower 48,
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark,
Organ,
Skarface,
Chris Corsano,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
X-102,
The J.B.'s,
Drive Like Jehu,
Franke,
Brick,
Albert Ayler,
the Swans,
Supertramp,
Matthew Bourne,
Yazoo,
Boredoms,
Severed Heads,
Sonic Youth,
Eve St. Jones,
Jeff Mills,
Echospace,
The Alarm Clocks,
Angry Samoans,
The Busters,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
Second Layer,
Moby Grape,
Faraquet,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft,
Infiniti,
The Five Americans,
Moss Icon,
Los Fastidios,
Yusef Lateef,
Ituana,
The American Breed,
Moebius,
Dennis Brown,
Lindisfarne,
Magma,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
Glenn Branca,
Gerry Rafferty,
The Barracudas,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Neil Young, Neil Young, Neil Young, Neil Young.
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.