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 Kuwait and from Tehran.
But I was there.
I was there in 1977.
I was there at the first Mistral show in Amsterdam.
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 1962 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Jakarta and Tehran.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Mumbai 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 güiro sounds with much patience.
I was there when Holger Czukay 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 Bobby Womack to the grime kids.
I played it at the Spitz.
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 The Neon Judgement. All the underground hits.
All Howard Jones tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Ossler 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 '50s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a mellotron and a synthesizer and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Mojo Men record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your marimba and bought a chamberlin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a marimba.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
U.S. Maple,
Camberwell Now,
Agitation Free,
Todd Rundgren,
Sex Pistols,
Reuben Wilson,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
Deadbeat,
Monks,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
Funky Four + One,
Niagra,
Oneida,
Von Mondo,
Moebius,
ABBA,
Sexual Harrassment,
Audionom,
Tropical Tobacco,
Neil Young,
Kurtis Blow,
The Music Machine,
Flipper,
Don Cherry,
The Monks,
Scientists,
Minnie Riperton,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Sixth Finger,
China Crisis,
Electric Light Orchestra,
Radio Birdman,
Girls At Our Best!,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Judy Mowatt,
Juan Atkins,
Be Bop Deluxe,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
Angels of Light & Akron/Family,
Essential Logic,
Subhumans,
Peter & Gordon,
Second Layer,
Ultimate Spinach,
Pagans,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Erasure,
The Sisters of Mercy,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Intrusion,
Shuggie Otis,
the Soft Cell,
Cybotron,
The Skatalites,
Delta 5,
Sad Lovers and Giants,
X-101, X-101, X-101, X-101.
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.