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 Georgia and from Stockholm.
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 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Mexico City and Milan.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Stockholm 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 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 Brick to the dance kids.
I played it at the Astoria.
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 Vaughan Mason & Crew. All the underground hits.
All Scientists tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Barrington Levy record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rap 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 synthesizer and a spring reverb and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a X-102 record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a linndrum.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Black Moon,
The Vogues,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Skriet,
John Foxx,
The Dead C,
Lou Christie,
Crooked Eye,
Mantronix,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Eyeless In Gaza,
Animal Collective,
CMW,
Sugar Minott,
Country Teasers,
Popol Vuh,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
Silicon Teens,
Radio Birdman,
Radiopuhelimet,
Ten City,
Roxette,
Fugazi,
Television,
Joe Finger,
Suburban Knight,
Marine Girls,
cv313,
David Axelrod,
Grey Daturas,
Joe Smooth,
Average White Band,
The Shadows of Knight,
Schoolly D,
Wally Richardson,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
Sound Behaviour,
Max Romeo,
Deakin,
The Happenings,
The Motions,
Rites of Spring,
Q65,
The Seeds,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
The Beau Brummels,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Fort Wilson Riot,
Derrick May,
X-101,
Lungfish,
Aloha Tigers,
Chris & Cosey,
Fatback Band,
Section 25,
Tubeway Army,
Icehouse,
Rhythm & Sound,
The Fuzztones,
Red Lorry Yellow Lorry,
Bluetip,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))), Scott Walker + Sunn O))), Scott Walker + Sunn O))), Scott Walker + Sunn O))).
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.