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 New Zealand and from Spokane.
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 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Woodstock and Glasgow.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Bremen 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 1976 at the first Buzzcocks practice in a loft in Bolton.
I was working on the mellotron 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 Lou Christie to the funk kids.
I played it at CBGB's.
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 Pussy Galore. All the underground hits.
All Pussy Galore tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Ronan record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal disco 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 oboe and a spring reverb and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Justin Hinds & The Dominoes record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your harpsichord and bought a linndrum.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a harpsichord.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Kevin Saunderson,
The Mighty Diamonds,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Young Marble Giants,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Ossler,
Faust,
Max Romeo,
Y Pants,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
This Heat,
The Leaves,
The Beau Brummels,
Amazonics,
The Motions,
Roger Hodgson,
Deadbeat,
Reagan Youth,
The Peanut Butter Conspiracy,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
Hot Snakes,
Hasil Adkins,
Lucky Dragons,
Alice Coltrane,
Procol Harum,
Nils Olav,
Jimmy McGriff,
Al Stewart,
Massinfluence,
Malaria!,
Ultravox,
Heaven 17,
The Buckinghams,
Gregory Isaacs,
Circle Jerks,
Marmalade,
Robert Görl,
Louis and Bebe Barron,
Crispian St. Peters,
Richard Hell and the Voidoids,
Hardrive,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
The Searchers,
The Saints,
Soulsonic Force,
LL Cool J,
New York Dolls,
The Star Department,
Derrick Morgan,
Negative Approach,
The Slackers,
Toni Rubio,
Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines,
Boz Scaggs,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Zapp,
Los Fastidios,
Juan Atkins,
Ash Ra Tempel,
Amon Düül II,
The Golliwogs, The Golliwogs, The Golliwogs, The Golliwogs.
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.