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 Norway and from Copenhagen.
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 1960 to 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Copenhagen and Glasgow.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Johannesburg 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 mellotron 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 Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel to the electroclash 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 Cameo. All the underground hits.
All Slick Rick tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every L. Decosne record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal jazz hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a chamberlin and a harpsichord and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Velvet Underground record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a spring reverb.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a theremin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Pretty Things,
Adolescents,
Roxy Music,
Theoretical Girls,
Cybotron,
The Searchers,
Todd Terry,
Kings Of Tomorrow,
The Zeros,
Camberwell Now,
The Moody Blues,
Eyeless In Gaza,
Half Japanese,
The Pop Group,
Eric Copeland,
Glenn Branca,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
LL Cool J,
Jacob Miller,
Alton Ellis,
The Sound,
The Velvet Underground,
Nils Olav,
Essential Logic,
L. Decosne,
X-Ray Spex,
Reuben Wilson,
Bootsy's Rubber Band,
Maleditus Sound,
Art Ensemble Of Chicago,
Slick Rick,
Young Marble Giants,
Gong,
Agitation Free,
Marcia Griffiths,
Marine Girls,
Infiniti,
Agent Orange,
Niagra,
Magma,
The Busters,
Smog,
Pulsallama,
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark,
ABC,
The Count Five,
Lou Reed,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Thinking Fellers Union Local 282,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
The Smiths,
Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson,
The Offenders,
Groovy Waters,
Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx,
Ice-T,
The Angels of Light,
The Wake,
Black Sheep,
The Cramps,
Severed Heads,
Lee Hazlewood, Lee Hazlewood, Lee Hazlewood, Lee Hazlewood.
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.