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 India and from Calgary.
But I was there.
I was there in 1976.
I was there at the first Chic 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 1961 to 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in New York and Tehran.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Bologna 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 guitar sounds with much patience.
I was there when Robert Palmer 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 Bluetip to the rock kids.
I played it at the Roxy.
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 Ohio Players. All the underground hits.
All Alice Coltrane tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Marshall Jefferson 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 '80s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying an organ and a guitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Guru Guru record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a 808.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 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?
Bizarre Inc.,
Q65,
Dave Gahan,
Ultimate Spinach,
John Lydon,
Soft Machine,
Goldenarms,
Sandy B,
Ohio Players,
Eden Ahbez,
KRS-One,
Frankie Knuckles,
Unrelated Segments,
The Cramps,
the Fania All-Stars,
The Alarm Clocks,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
The Sonics,
Swell Maps,
The Golliwogs,
Stereo Dub,
Tomorrow,
Ronan,
Red Lorry Yellow Lorry,
Fort Wilson Riot,
Fatback Band,
Reuben Wilson,
the Human League,
Amon Düül,
E-Dancer,
Scion,
Bad Manners,
The Kinks,
John Cale,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
Popol Vuh,
Mr. Review,
the Association,
the Normal,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Gian Franco Pienzio,
Nik Kershaw,
Richard Hell and the Voidoids,
Sexual Harrassment,
Robert Görl,
Inner City,
Scientists,
Dual Sessions,
Half Japanese,
Idris Muhammad,
Cymande,
Michelle Simonal,
Don Cherry,
The Doobie Brothers,
Qualms,
Smog,
cv313,
China Crisis,
Dark Day,
kango's stein massive,
Pet Shop Boys,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
Gabor Szabo, Gabor Szabo, Gabor Szabo, Gabor Szabo.
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.