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 Ghana and from Copenhagen.
But I was there.
I was there in 1977.
I was there at the first Zapp show in Hamilton.
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 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Paris and London.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Shanghai 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 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 Q65 to the funk kids.
I played it at Trash.
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 Basic Channel. All the underground hits.
All Motorama tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Toni Rubio record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal techno 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 a harpsichord and a sitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Massinfluence record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a snare.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought a spring reverb.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Real Kids,
Roger Hodgson,
The Gun Club,
Nils Olav,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
Connie Case,
R.M.O.,
Ten City,
Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft,
Jawbox,
The Blackbyrds,
Johnny Osbourne,
The Victims,
Aswad,
Eric Copeland,
Khruangbin,
Don Cherry,
Deadbeat,
Freddie Wadling,
Ash Ra Tempel,
Yellowson,
DNA,
Echo & the Bunnymen,
Isaac Hayes,
Nick Fraelich,
The Saints,
Hardrive,
Moss Icon,
Judy Mowatt,
Quantec,
Das Ding,
The Music Machine,
The Electric Prunes,
The Pop Group,
Ralphi Rosario,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
The Slits,
Patti Smith,
Ken Boothe,
Ludus,
Agitation Free,
Babytalk,
Fear,
Easy Going,
Lungfish,
the Sonics,
The Sonics,
Brothers Johnson,
The Angels of Light,
DJ Style,
Crime,
Minny Pops,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
Crispy Ambulance,
The Monks,
Rapeman,
Icehouse,
Procol Harum,
The American Breed,
Smog,
Sex Pistols,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes, Justin Hinds & The Dominoes, Justin Hinds & The Dominoes, Justin Hinds & The Dominoes.
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.