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 Czech Republic and from Halifax.
But I was there.
I was there in 1971.
I was there at the first Big Star show in Memphis.
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 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in New York and Jakarta.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Lille 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 David Bowie 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 Neu! to the dance kids.
I played it at Cafe Wha.
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 Ossler. All the underground hits.
All Cecil Taylor tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Kenny Larkin record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal crunk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a rhodes and a linndrum and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Goldenarms record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a spring reverb.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Massinfluence,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Pole,
Richard Hell and the Voidoids,
Ronan,
Eddi Front,
The Slackers,
Michelle Simonal,
Supertramp,
Aloha Tigers,
Crispy Ambulance,
Talk Talk,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
Outsiders,
Bobby Hutcherson,
The Busters,
The Dave Clark Five,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
Marine Girls,
The Doobie Brothers,
The Grass Roots,
The Gun Club,
Danielle Patucci,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
Mission of Burma,
Das Ding,
Kaleidoscope,
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
Brothers Johnson,
The Black Dice,
Sparks,
Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson,
a-ha,
Ice-T,
Terrestrial Tones,
Flash Fearless,
Bang on a Can All-Stars,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Jeff Lynne,
Ralphi Rosario,
Juan Atkins,
Ultra Naté,
Kerri Chandler,
Tropical Tobacco,
FM Einheit,
Lyres,
Stereo Dub,
Intrusion,
Q and Not U,
La Düsseldorf,
JFA,
New Age Steppers,
The Leaves,
Ronnie Foster,
Niagra,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
This Heat,
Eden Ahbez,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
Deakin,
The Moleskins,
James Chance & The Contortions, James Chance & The Contortions, James Chance & The Contortions, James Chance & The Contortions.
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.