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 Zimbabwe and from Woodstock.
But I was there.
I was there in 1976.
I was there at the first Feelies show in Haledon.
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 1964 to 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Shanghai and Milan.
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 1971 at the first Big Star practice in a loft in Memphis.
I was working on the arpeggiator 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 Archie Shepp to the rock kids.
I played it at Cafe Wha.
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 Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark. All the underground hits.
All The Men They Couldn't Hang tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Davy DMX record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grime hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a spring reverb and a harpsichord and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Lalann record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a sitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a 808.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
kango's stein massive,
Delta 5,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
Circle Jerks,
The Sisters of Mercy,
Nas,
Vainqueur,
Fort Wilson Riot,
The Angels of Light,
Lee Hazlewood,
Cluster,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Bronski Beat,
Thompson Twins,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
Subhumans,
The Index,
Sad Lovers and Giants,
Warsaw,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Angels of Light & Akron/Family,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Selector Dub Narcotic,
The New Christs,
Pharoah Sanders,
MC5,
This Heat,
a-ha,
Simply Red,
Gian Franco Pienzio,
The Move,
John Foxx,
The American Breed,
The Beau Brummels,
DJ Style,
Marvin Gaye,
Eyeless In Gaza,
Flash Fearless,
The J.B.'s,
Johnny Clarke,
Monolake,
Pussy Galore,
Monks,
Jimmy McGriff,
Alphaville,
Henry Cow,
the Fania All-Stars,
Bobby Hutcherson,
Panda Bear,
Roxette,
Rosa Yemen,
The Count Five,
Brass Construction,
Nirvana,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
Rites of Spring,
Dawn Penn,
Liaisons Dangereuses,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic, Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic, Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic, Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic.
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.