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 Latvia and from Salvador.
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 1967 to 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Shanghai and Jakarta.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Hong Kong 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 1977 at the first Zapp practice in a loft in Hamilton.
I was working on the spring reverb 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 Albert Ayler to the dance kids.
I played it at Cafe Wha.
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 a-ha. All the underground hits.
All The Index tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Fugs 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 '80s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a 808 and a theremin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Intrusion record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a spring reverb.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Scott Walker,
Tommy Roe,
The Dirtbombs,
Delta 5,
Monks,
Youth Brigade,
Infiniti,
Larry & the Blue Notes,
Audionom,
Reagan Youth,
The New Christs,
Mantronix,
Rod Modell,
JFA,
Derrick Morgan,
Stockholm Monsters,
Nas,
Susan Cadogan,
The Peanut Butter Conspiracy,
The Music Machine,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson,
Maleditus Sound,
The Count Five,
Idris Muhammad,
Bobby Hutcherson,
Warsaw,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
Neu!,
Electric Prunes,
Curtis Mayfield,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Symarip,
Carl Craig,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
Second Layer,
Man Parrish,
Gang of Four,
Gerry Rafferty,
Quando Quango,
Nick Fraelich,
Tubeway Army,
Jawbox,
Wire,
The Cramps,
Marc Romboy vs. Booka Shade,
Section 25,
Scion,
Crooked Eye,
Danielle Patucci,
Hasil Adkins,
Rhythm & Sound,
The Smoke,
The Stooges,
Deepchord,
Steve Hackett,
Essential Logic,
Kurtis Blow,
Deakin,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
The Fuzztones, The Fuzztones, The Fuzztones, The Fuzztones.
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.