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 Kosovo and from Portland.
But I was there.
I was there in 1976.
I was there at the first Feelies show in Haledon.
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 1961 to 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Toronto and New York.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Philadelphia 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 synthesizer 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 KRS-One to the jazz 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 Delta 5. All the underground hits.
All Bobby Sherman tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Visage 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 '80s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a linndrum and a spring reverb and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Blackbyrds record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your organ and bought an organ.
I hear that you and your band have sold your organ and bought an organ.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Invisible,
Japan,
Ronnie Foster,
Ornette Coleman,
In Retrospect,
Mad Mike,
Altered Images,
Gregory Isaacs,
Livin' Joy,
Porter Ricks,
Stiv Bators,
Dawn Penn,
Aloha Tigers,
Marc Almond,
Schoolly D,
Erykah Badu,
Cabaret Voltaire,
Smog,
The Remains,
The Techniques,
New York Dolls,
China Crisis,
Ponytail,
kango's stein massive,
the Sonics,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
PIL,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
The Modern Lovers,
Organ,
Newcleus,
Blancmange,
Terrestrial Tones,
Ultra Naté,
Boredoms,
X-102,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Shuggie Otis,
Lower 48,
Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines,
It's A Beautiful Day,
Larry & the Blue Notes,
Jimmy McGriff,
June Days,
The Smoke,
Can,
The Fortunes,
AZ,
Red Lorry Yellow Lorry,
Tomorrow,
Kings Of Tomorrow,
Roy Ayers,
Intrusion,
The Zeros,
The Motions,
DNA,
Colin Newman,
Barry Ungar,
The Happenings,
John Holt,
Spoonie Gee,
Sad Lovers and Giants,
Lou Reed,
Girls At Our Best!, Girls At Our Best!, Girls At Our Best!, Girls At Our Best!.
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.