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 United Kingdom and from Bremen.
But I was there.
I was there in .
I was there at the first Suicide 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 1967 to 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Houston and Beijing.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Johannesburg 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 chamberlin 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 James Chance & The Contortions to the punk kids.
I played it at the 40 Watt.
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 Royal Family And The Poor. All the underground hits.
All Thinking Fellers Union Local 282 tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Echo & the Bunnymen record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal funk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a spring reverb and a mellotron and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Associates record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a chamberlin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Electric Prunes,
Banda Bassotti,
Gichy Dan,
Skriet,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
The Moody Blues,
Barbara Tucker,
Accadde A,
Graham Central Station,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Lightning Bolt,
Animal Collective,
Quando Quango,
DJ Style,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
Wolf Eyes,
Visage,
Echospace,
Pierre Henry,
Ultravox,
Bang on a Can All-Stars,
Bad Manners,
Leonard Cohen,
The Dave Clark Five,
the Sonics,
Black Sheep,
Sun Ra,
Marc Almond,
The Smoke,
Jandek,
Public Image Ltd.,
The Mighty Diamonds,
Isaac Hayes,
Peter & Gordon,
Delta 5,
The Music Machine,
The Mummies,
James Chance & The Contortions,
Blancmange,
Cameo,
June of 44,
Charles Mingus,
Crime,
Altered Images,
Brothers Johnson,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
Deadbeat,
Amon Düül,
Roxy Music,
Todd Rundgren,
Excepter,
Can,
The Searchers,
Thompson Twins,
Kurtis Blow,
Aaron Thompson,
The Standells,
Ken Boothe,
the Human League,
Unrelated Segments,
Cymande,
Funkadelic, Funkadelic, Funkadelic, Funkadelic.
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.