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 Finland and from Portland.
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 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Tehran and Accra.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Madrid 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 güiro sounds with much patience.
I was there when Captain Beefheart 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 Boredoms to the rock kids.
I played it at the Spitz.
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 Section 25. All the underground hits.
All Nico tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Sällskapet record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal dance hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying an organ and a mellotron and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Subhumans record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought an arpeggiator.
I hear that you and your band have sold your arpeggiator and bought a mellotron.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Red Krayola,
cv313,
Chrome,
The Techniques,
Echospace,
Black Bananas,
Fatback Band,
The Busters,
Popol Vuh,
Morten Harket,
The Doobie Brothers,
Visage,
Donny Hathaway,
Guru Guru,
Public Image Ltd.,
Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane,
Animal Collective,
Nico,
Tom Boy,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
David Axelrod,
Radiopuhelimet,
Avey Tare's Slasher Flicks,
48th St. Collective,
Peter and Kerry,
Sparks,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
The Move,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
Barrington Levy,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
Yusef Lateef,
Main Source,
The Gap Band,
Bobby Hutcherson,
Barbara Tucker,
X-101,
the Fania All-Stars,
Jeff Mills,
Cameo,
the Association,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
Ralphi Rosario,
Marvin Gaye,
Bauhaus,
Scratch Acid,
The Mojo Men,
Young Marble Giants,
X-102,
Audionom,
The Mighty Diamonds,
Gil Scott Heron,
Freddie Wadling,
Sugar Minott,
Soft Machine,
Television,
Clear Light,
Das Ding,
Nation of Ulysses,
The Victims,
Funky Four + One, Funky Four + One, Funky Four + One, Funky Four + One.
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.