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 Peru and from Tehran.
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 1963 to 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Hong Kong and Calgary.
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 1987 at the first Nirvana practice in a loft in Seattle.
I was working on the guitar 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 Cheater Slicks to the jazz kids.
I played it at the 40 Watt.
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 Avey Tare. All the underground hits.
All Bootsy Collins tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Gichy Dan 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 '80s.
I hear you're buying an arpeggiator and a snare and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Darondo record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a 808.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Dual Sessions,
Fad Gadget,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Dawn Penn,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
MDC,
Echo & the Bunnymen,
Neil Young,
Smog,
Popol Vuh,
Ronnie Foster,
Monks,
David McCallum,
Clear Light,
The Dirtbombs,
Depeche Mode,
Faust,
Bizarre Inc.,
The J.B.'s,
Frankie Knuckles,
Country Joe & The Fish,
Robert Wyatt,
Country Teasers,
Can,
Toni Rubio,
Wasted Youth,
Au Pairs,
Quantec,
Ultra Naté,
Schoolly D,
Avey Tare,
Bill Near,
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
Black Sheep,
The Zeros,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
Colin Newman,
Donald Byrd,
Minny Pops,
Loose Ends,
Al Stewart,
Joy Division,
Electric Light Orchestra,
Eurythmics,
Arcadia,
Gabor Szabo,
Talk Talk,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
Larry & the Blue Notes,
Teenage Jesus and the Jerks,
Carl Craig,
Tres Demented,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Cameo,
The Durutti Column,
Pharoah Sanders,
Von Mondo,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
Newcleus,
Charles Mingus,
Lightning Bolt, Lightning Bolt, Lightning Bolt, Lightning Bolt.
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.