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 Tanzania and from Glasgow.
But I was there.
I was there in 1984.
I was there at the first Arcadia show in London.
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 Glasgow.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Manila 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 clarinet sounds with much patience.
I was there when Lou Reed 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 Eden Ahbez to the crunk 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 Newcleus. All the underground hits.
All David Axelrod tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Lou Reed & Metallica 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 '80s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a rhodes and a theremin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Cluster record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your güiro and bought a sitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a güiro.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Roxy Music,
Bizarre Inc.,
Michelle Simonal,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
Black Moon,
Negative Approach,
Traffic Nightmare,
The Cure,
The Associates,
Johnny Clarke,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
Alison Limerick,
Larry & the Blue Notes,
Joy Division,
Rites of Spring,
Lou Reed,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
The Busters,
JFA,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
Mary Jane Girls,
Section 25,
The Monks,
Y Pants,
Fela Kuti,
China Crisis,
Mars,
The Doors,
John Cale,
Eve St. Jones,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
The Pretty Things,
Ronan,
Isaac Hayes,
Kenny Larkin,
Chrome,
Marmalade,
Scan 7,
Pole,
Harpers Bizarre,
Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme,
Crime,
Schoolly D,
The Smoke,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
the Fania All-Stars,
Unrelated Segments,
Selector Dub Narcotic,
X-101,
The Skatalites,
The Red Krayola,
F. McDonald,
X-102,
Inner City,
R.M.O., R.M.O., R.M.O., R.M.O..
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.