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 Georgia and from Seoul.
But I was there.
I was there in 1976.
I was there at the first Soft Boys show in Cambridge.
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 1963 to 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Johannesburg and Edmonton.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Milan 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 oboe 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 Robert Hood to the rock 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 Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz. All the underground hits.
All Black Flag tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel 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 sitar and a guitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Bootsy's Rubber Band record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought an oboe.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a theremin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Kenny Larkin,
Eric Dolphy,
Skaos,
Scan 7,
Magma,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Swell Maps,
Jerry Gold Smith,
Sister Nancy,
Suburban Knight,
Rites of Spring,
Malaria!,
Kurtis Blow,
KRS-One,
Theoretical Girls,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
Patti Smith,
Banda Bassotti,
The Alarm Clocks,
Max Romeo,
Gian Franco Pienzio,
The Fuzztones,
Oppenheimer Analysis,
Main Source,
Yaz,
Sugar Minott,
The Litter,
The Smoke,
Lungfish,
The Martian,
Alton Ellis,
Rufus Thomas,
The Walker Brothers,
Pantytec,
Jerry's Kids,
Popol Vuh,
Icehouse,
UT,
The Jesus and Mary Chain,
Buzzcocks,
Gichy Dan,
EPMD,
Warren Ellis,
Circle Jerks,
Nas,
Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson,
Pole,
Terry Callier,
Spoonie Gee,
Ludus,
Inner City,
The Pop Group,
Wings,
The Real Kids,
Second Layer,
Curtis Mayfield,
Chris Corsano,
Hardrive,
Hashim,
John Coltrane,
Motorama,
The Fire Engines, The Fire Engines, The Fire Engines, The Fire Engines.
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.