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 Macedonia and from Houston.
But I was there.
I was there in 1976.
I was there at the first Feelies show in Haledon.
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 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Winnipeg and Milan.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Delhi 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 Captain Beefheart 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 The Durutti Column to the funk 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 These Immortal Souls. All the underground hits.
All Grey Daturas tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Essential Logic record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rock 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 an arpeggiator and a harpsichord and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Byron Stingily record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought an organ.
I hear that you and your band have sold your organ and bought a spring reverb.
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,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
Panda Bear,
The Techniques,
Teenage Jesus and the Jerks,
Traffic Nightmare,
Gabor Szabo,
Scrapy,
Circle Jerks,
the Swans,
Peter & Gordon,
LL Cool J,
The United States of America,
Donny Hathaway,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
Dark Day,
Ornette Coleman,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Yusef Lateef,
Angels of Light & Akron/Family,
Zero Boys,
Funky Four + One,
Joensuu 1685,
Lightning Bolt,
Terrestrial Tones,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
Slave,
Carl Craig,
The Sonics,
Ultimate Spinach,
Schoolly D,
Scientists,
Deepchord,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
Easy Going,
Kango’s Stein Massive,
The Kinks,
Index,
Eurythmics,
The Zeros,
Deadbeat,
Skaos,
Eric B and Rakim,
Strawberry Alarm Clock,
Basic Channel,
The Beau Brummels,
Sixth Finger,
Tropical Tobacco,
Thompson Twins,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Fifty Foot Hose,
Moss Icon,
Oneida,
The Black Dice,
Kayak,
Tommy Roe,
Public Image Ltd.,
Connie Case,
Electric Prunes,
New Age Steppers,
The Dave Clark Five, The Dave Clark Five, The Dave Clark Five, The Dave Clark Five.
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.