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 Sierra Leone and from Taipei.
But I was there.
I was there in 1967.
I was there at the first Rodriguez show in Detroit.
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 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Columbus and Tokyo.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Houston 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 rhodes sounds with much patience.
I was there when Lou Reed 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 The Associates to the grunge kids.
I played it at the Hacienda.
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 Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud. All the underground hits.
All Lee Hazlewood tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Red Lorry Yellow Lorry record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grime hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a güiro and a mellotron and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Fat Boys record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a linndrum.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a rhodes.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Slick Rick,
Echospace,
Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
Bush Tetras,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Mo-Dettes,
Roger Hodgson,
Liaisons Dangereuses,
Carl Craig,
Hoover,
Subhumans,
Beasts of Bourbon,
Model 500,
The Alarm Clocks,
The Mummies,
Gong,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
The Moody Blues,
The Victims,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
The Detroit Cobras,
Icehouse,
Agent Orange,
June of 44,
Warsaw,
Pantaleimon,
Lebanon Hanover,
Goldenarms,
Prince Buster,
The Monks,
Bronski Beat,
Banda Bassotti,
Delon & Dalcan,
Los Fastidios,
Second Layer,
Stockholm Monsters,
The Barracudas,
The Residents,
Ultimate Spinach,
The Fugs,
Morten Harket,
OOIOO,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
UT,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Colin Newman,
Reuben Wilson,
These Immortal Souls,
Funkadelic,
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band,
New Order,
Sight & Sound,
Grandmaster Flash,
Black Flag,
Donny Hathaway,
Mad Mike,
Nico,
Siglo XX,
The Shadows of Knight,
Inner City,
Matthew Bourne,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel, Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel, Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel, Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel.
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.