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 Malawi and from Jakarta.
But I was there.
I was there in 1977.
I was there at the first Zapp show in Hamilton.
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 1965 to 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Bremen and Philadelphia.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Paris 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 güiro sounds with much patience.
I was there when Tom Verlaine 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 Banda Bassotti to the grime kids.
I played it at the Astoria.
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 Standells. All the underground hits.
All Sister Nancy tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Moby Grape record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal dance 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 guitar and a linndrum and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Negative Approach record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Au Pairs,
David Bowie,
Q and Not U,
Subhumans,
Pierre Henry,
Peter and Kerry,
Louis and Bebe Barron,
Erasure,
Ossler,
Kool Moe Dee,
X-101,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Niagra,
UT,
The Vogues,
the Association,
Sun City Girls,
Scott Walker,
Youth Brigade,
Model 500,
The Associates,
Inner City,
Marine Girls,
Jeff Mills,
Mandrill,
Bootsy's Rubber Band,
The Smoke,
Stereo Dub,
Kas Product,
Suicide,
Pagans,
Blancmange,
Angry Samoans,
Barbara Tucker,
Amon Düül II,
Terry Callier,
Jacob Miller,
Chrome,
Todd Rundgren,
Wally Richardson,
Sugar Minott,
Electric Light Orchestra,
Brick,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
Jeru the Damaja,
Sexual Harrassment,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
Rites of Spring,
Kerri Chandler,
R.M.O.,
Gong,
The Monks,
Aural Exciters,
Underground Resistance,
Tom Boy,
Nik Kershaw,
Pantaleimon,
B.T. Express,
Ornette Coleman,
Monolake,
Nas,
Metal Thangz, Metal Thangz, Metal Thangz, Metal Thangz.
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.