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 Kenya and from Jakarta.
But I was there.
I was there in 1973.
I was there at the first Television show in New York.
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 1969 to 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Hong Kong and Mexico City.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Tokyo 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 spring reverb sounds with much patience.
I was there when Michael McDonald 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 Grey Daturas to the rap kids.
I played it at Trash.
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 Mark Hollis. All the underground hits.
All The Chocolate Watch Band tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Kurtis Blow 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 '60s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a mellotron and a linndrum and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Gastr Del Sol record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a snare.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Standells,
Chris & Cosey,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Alphaville,
Crime,
The Move,
Audionom,
The Skatalites,
Aloha Tigers,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
The Five Americans,
Marmalade,
Jerry's Kids,
Stiv Bators,
The Moody Blues,
Dual Sessions,
The Fugs,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
The Detroit Cobras,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Theoretical Girls,
Inner City,
The Barracudas,
The Birthday Party,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
Vladislav Delay,
Prince Buster,
Franke,
Slick Rick,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
Swans,
K-Klass,
Harpers Bizarre,
Babytalk,
La Düsseldorf,
Girls At Our Best!,
Smog,
Rufus Thomas,
Mad Mike,
The Mojo Men,
The Alarm Clocks,
Mantronix,
The New Christs,
Glambeats Corp.,
London Community Gospel Choir,
Camouflage,
John Cale,
The Busters,
Delta 5,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
DNA,
Animal Collective,
Lakeside,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
June Days,
Public Enemy,
The Tremeloes,
the Bar-Kays,
Duran Duran,
The Litter,
Jandek, Jandek, Jandek, Jandek.
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.