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 Korea South and from Johannesburg.
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 1968 to 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Spokane and Delhi.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Bologna 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 1975 at the first Ubu practice in a loft in Cleveland.
I was working on the spring reverb 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 Alton Ellis to the techno 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 The Doors. All the underground hits.
All In Retrospect tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Faust record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal crunk 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 guitar and an organ and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Soul Sonic Force record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a spring reverb.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a 808.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Toasters,
the Fania All-Stars,
Sugar Minott,
The Residents,
Fat Boys,
Dead Boys,
Graham Central Station,
Joey Negro,
Aural Exciters,
Eden Ahbez,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
Echo & the Bunnymen,
Kango’s Stein Massive,
Nick Fraelich,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Stiv Bators,
Lakeside,
Terry Callier,
Harmonia,
Arthur Verocai,
Scan 7,
Reuben Wilson,
Rosa Yemen,
Kenny Larkin,
Main Source,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
Bush Tetras,
Bob Dylan,
Gregory Isaacs,
Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft,
Rufus Thomas,
Curtis Mayfield,
Niagra,
Quando Quango,
The Moody Blues,
The Fire Engines,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
Jawbox,
The Fuzztones,
Sam Rivers,
The Associates,
Harpers Bizarre,
UT,
Marmalade,
Wally Richardson,
These Immortal Souls,
Michelle Simonal,
Charles Mingus,
Angry Samoans,
Bill Near,
John Lydon,
Massinfluence,
Alphaville,
John Coltrane,
Todd Terry,
Duran Duran,
Porter Ricks,
The Fall, The Fall, The Fall, The Fall.
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.