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 Uruguay and from Milan.
But I was there.
I was there in 1973.
I was there at the first Television 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 1969 to 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Sao Paulo and Jakarta.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Glasgow 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 rhodes sounds with much patience.
I was there when Michael McDonald 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 Radiopuhelimet to the rock kids.
I played it at the Crocodile.
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 Velvet Underground. All the underground hits.
All The Slackers tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Dark Day record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grunge hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a güiro and a harpsichord and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Wally Richardson record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your güiro and bought a rhodes.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a güiro.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Massinfluence,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
Kayak,
Roxy Music,
Pet Shop Boys,
David McCallum,
The Birthday Party,
Mary Jane Girls,
Amon Düül,
10cc,
Ultra Naté,
JFA,
Kerri Chandler,
Drive Like Jehu,
DJ Sneak,
Minnie Riperton,
Deakin,
L. Decosne,
Tres Demented,
Althea and Donna,
The Real Kids,
Darondo,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
Selector Dub Narcotic,
Second Layer,
Prince Buster,
Pere Ubu,
Sparks,
Swans,
Gabor Szabo,
Saccharine Trust,
Television,
Panda Bear,
Lebanon Hanover,
The Sonics,
Ralphi Rosario,
The Motions,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Brothers Johnson,
Visage,
The Residents,
Delon & Dalcan,
Dorothy Ashby,
China Crisis,
Marine Girls,
Stockholm Monsters,
Gang Gang Dance,
Con Funk Shun,
Cheater Slicks,
Clear Light,
Lindisfarne,
Godley & Creme,
Basic Channel,
Roxette,
Deepchord,
Scientists,
Sun City Girls,
The Toasters,
Peter and Kerry,
Jacob Miller,
Circle Jerks,
Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines, Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines, Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines, Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines.
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.