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 Taiwan and from Taipei.
But I was there.
I was there in 1980.
I was there at the first Cybotron show in Detroit.
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 1966 to 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Cairo and Accra.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Tokyo 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 organ sounds with much patience.
I was there when Nile Rodgers 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 Technova to the disco kids.
I played it at the Hacienda.
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 Al Stewart. All the underground hits.
All Nils Olav tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Nico 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 '60s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a guitar and an oboe and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Moody Blues record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought an organ.
I hear that you and your band have sold your organ and bought a linndrum.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Lonnie Liston Smith,
Harmonia,
Infiniti,
The Last Poets,
X-102,
T.S.O.L.,
Bobby Byrd,
Delta 5,
Kings Of Tomorrow,
Thinking Fellers Union Local 282,
Dawn Penn,
The Invisible,
Mandrill,
Das Ding,
The Velvet Underground,
Bang On A Can,
Barbara Tucker,
Tears for Fears,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Circle Jerks,
Darondo,
Lyres,
The Litter,
Sonic Youth,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
Lucky Dragons,
FM Einheit,
a-ha,
Archie Shepp,
Freddie Wadling,
Rakim,
Peter & Gordon,
The Fugs,
Erasure,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
Moebius,
Supertramp,
Roxette,
Jerry's Kids,
Marmalade,
Todd Rundgren,
Unrelated Segments,
Black Sheep,
The Count Five,
Kool Moe Dee,
Royal Trux,
Newcleus,
Pulsallama,
Accadde A,
kango's stein massive,
Khruangbin,
The Dead C,
Tubeway Army,
Malaria!,
Tom Boy,
June of 44,
The Trojans,
AZ,
Barry Ungar, Barry Ungar, Barry Ungar, Barry Ungar.
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.