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 Netherlands and from Taipei.
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 1968 to 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Salvador and Bologna.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Manchester 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 at the first Suicide practice in a loft in New York.
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 Mary Jane Girls to the grime 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 The Human League. All the underground hits.
All Scott Walker + Sunn O))) tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Basic Channel record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal electroclash 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 808 and a rhodes and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Scott Walker + Sunn O))) record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a güiro.
I hear that you and your band have sold your güiro and bought a rhodes.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
Scott Walker,
Barclay James Harvest,
Japan,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
Bang On A Can,
The Men They Couldn't Hang,
Charles Mingus,
The Invisible,
Procol Harum,
The Raincoats,
Bobbi Humphrey,
Stereo Dub,
the Bar-Kays,
Toni Rubio,
Black Flag,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Louis and Bebe Barron,
MDC,
The Velvet Underground,
The Happenings,
Eve St. Jones,
Kerrie Biddell,
Sam Rivers,
Delta 5,
Brand Nubian,
Stetsasonic,
Boogie Down Productions,
Piero Umiliani,
Crispian St. Peters,
New Order,
The Evens,
The Techniques,
The Moody Blues,
Fugazi,
Section 25,
Crispy Ambulance,
Ponytail,
Mary Jane Girls,
Urselle,
Boredoms,
Kool Moe Dee,
Harpers Bizarre,
Dennis Brown,
The Five Americans,
Banda Bassotti,
Rekid,
The Real Kids,
Shuggie Otis,
Sonny Sharrock,
The Mojo Men,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
Jeff Mills,
Funky Four + One,
Kango’s Stein Massive,
Mad Mike,
Y Pants,
the Normal,
Silicon Teens,
Moby Grape,
Archie Shepp, Archie Shepp, Archie Shepp, Archie Shepp.
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.