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 Croatia and from Milan.
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 1969 to 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Lyon and Mumbai.
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 1980 at the first Cybotron practice in a loft in Detroit.
I was working on the oboe sounds with much patience.
I was there when Captain Beefheart 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 Fatback Band to the disco 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 Seeds. All the underground hits.
All Joensuu 1685 tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Maleditus Sound 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 '60s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a rhodes and a chamberlin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Michelle Simonal record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a linndrum.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a spring reverb.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Tropical Tobacco,
Oppenheimer Analysis,
Gichy Dan,
Eric Copeland,
Rekid,
Fat Boys,
Oblivians,
Cybotron,
Sister Nancy,
Alison Limerick,
Stereo Dub,
The Slits,
The Cosmic Jokers,
Sarah Menescal,
Desert Stars,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
Wally Richardson,
Symarip,
Iggy Pop,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
Delon & Dalcan,
Barclay James Harvest,
Roy Ayers,
Lalann,
Soul II Soul,
Nils Olav,
David McCallum,
Sparks,
Sam Rivers,
Kerrie Biddell,
Sunsets and Hearts,
Johnny Osbourne,
Royal Trux,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
Scott Walker,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
Godley & Creme,
Marc Almond,
Fugazi,
Deakin,
Rites of Spring,
Cecil Taylor,
Althea and Donna,
Interpol,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Eurythmics,
Leonard Cohen,
Davy DMX,
Lebanon Hanover,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
Brass Construction,
Vainqueur,
Fatback Band,
Dual Sessions,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
Supertramp,
Skarface,
The Count Five,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk, Rahsaan Roland Kirk, Rahsaan Roland Kirk, Rahsaan Roland Kirk.
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.