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 Syria and from Delhi.
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 1965 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Lagos and New York.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Lille 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 1987 at the first Nirvana practice in a loft in Seattle.
I was working on the clarinet sounds with much patience.
I was there when Robert Palmer 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 Von Mondo 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 MC5. All the underground hits.
All In Retrospect tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every John Foxx record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal jazz hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a 808 and an organ and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Michelle Simonal record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your organ and bought a güiro.
I hear that you and your band have sold your güiro and bought an organ.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
kango's stein massive,
The Red Krayola,
Trumans Water,
Arab on Radar,
L. Decosne,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
The Star Department,
Drive Like Jehu,
Jesper Dahlback,
Fear,
Minutemen,
Sight & Sound,
Mars,
Piero Umiliani,
Toni Rubio,
The Raincoats,
Tim Buckley,
Procol Harum,
Clear Light,
Eden Ahbez,
The Sisters of Mercy,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
Flipper,
Livin' Joy,
Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft,
The Slackers,
Janne Schatter,
Suburban Knight,
Hashim,
Grandmaster Flash,
Neil Young,
The Human League,
Soft Machine,
Guru Guru,
Brick,
Fat Boys,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Anakelly,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
Inner City,
The Modern Lovers,
Au Pairs,
John Holt,
The Monochrome Set,
Theoretical Girls,
Todd Rundgren,
Ultimate Spinach,
Con Funk Shun,
Amon Düül II,
Public Enemy,
the Soft Cell,
Gichy Dan,
Das Ding,
Alison Limerick,
Lalann,
Anthony Braxton,
Desert Stars,
Groovy Waters,
Newcleus,
Rites of Spring,
The Electric Prunes,
Cluster,
The Knickerbockers, The Knickerbockers, The Knickerbockers, The Knickerbockers.
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.