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 Japan and from Paris.
But I was there.
I was there in 1977.
I was there at the first Mistral show in Amsterdam.
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 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Philadelphia and Johannesburg.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Columbus 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 marimba 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 The Happenings to the punk kids.
I played it at the Hacienda.
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 Monochrome Set. All the underground hits.
All Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every the Association 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 '60s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a guitar and a spring reverb and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Unrelated Segments record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a clarinet.
I hear that you and your band have sold your clarinet and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The New Christs,
Clear Light,
Outsiders,
Jeff Mills,
Television Personalities,
Black Pus,
Royal Trux,
K-Klass,
Kool Moe Dee,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
Saccharine Trust,
Drexciya,
Piero Umiliani,
Arab on Radar,
Bluetip,
Lakeside,
Swell Maps,
the Germs,
Ohio Players,
The Evens,
Liliput,
Glenn Branca,
China Crisis,
Subhumans,
The Moleskins,
Nico,
The Monks,
Flamin' Groovies,
Brick,
Leonard Cohen,
Joey Negro,
Lyres,
Anthony Braxton,
Mars,
The Fortunes,
Matthew Halsall,
The Barracudas,
Oppenheimer Analysis,
Soul Sonic Force,
Terry Callier,
Pussy Galore,
Brothers Johnson,
Anakelly,
Q65,
Bush Tetras,
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band,
Rosa Yemen,
The Velvet Underground,
A Certain Ratio,
Jacques Brel,
Fifty Foot Hose,
Skaos,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
Bobby Womack,
Sam Rivers,
Tommy Roe,
Kenny Larkin,
Eric Dolphy,
The Raincoats,
The United States of America,
Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx,
Archie Shepp,
Patti Smith,
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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.