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 Uganda and from Shanghai.
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 1961 to 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Beijing and Delhi.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Houston 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 1973 at the first Television practice in a loft in New York.
I was working on the clarinet sounds with much patience.
I was there when Robert Palmer 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 Scientists to the crunk 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 Nas. All the underground hits.
All Interpol tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Silicon Teens 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 '50s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a synthesizer and a mellotron and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a the Germs 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?
Sound Behaviour,
Curtis Mayfield,
Lalann,
The Young Rascals,
The Zeros,
Laurel Aitken,
Pharoah Sanders,
Con Funk Shun,
Black Flag,
Nico,
Shoche,
Nation of Ulysses,
The Beau Brummels,
Godley & Creme,
Nas,
Jacob Miller,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Man Eating Sloth,
Khruangbin,
Agent Orange,
The Monks,
The Pop Group,
The Black Dice,
Lebanon Hanover,
The Jesus and Mary Chain,
Maurizio,
Ice-T,
Shuggie Otis,
Trumans Water,
Selector Dub Narcotic,
Althea and Donna,
The Slackers,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Alison Limerick,
Red Lorry Yellow Lorry,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
OOIOO,
Whodini,
Hot Snakes,
Archie Shepp,
Masters at Work,
Procol Harum,
Yazoo,
Tropical Tobacco,
Skarface,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
Audionom,
Soul Sonic Force,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
Lower 48,
The Blues Magoos,
The Selecter,
Kerri Chandler,
Richard Hell and the Voidoids,
Crime,
Lyres,
Anakelly,
The New Christs,
Das Ding,
Mandrill,
Wire, Wire, Wire, Wire.
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.