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 Bahamas and from Manchester.
But I was there.
I was there in 1984.
I was there at the first Arcadia show in London.
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 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Delhi and Spokane.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Milan 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 clarinet sounds with much patience.
I was there when Michael McDonald 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 Strawberry Alarm Clock to the grunge kids.
I played it at the Crocodile.
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 Flipper. All the underground hits.
All X-101 tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Pussy Galore record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal punk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying an oboe and a theremin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Cheater Slicks record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your marimba and bought a sitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a marimba.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Kenny Larkin,
The Motions,
Ornette Coleman,
Fort Wilson Riot,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
Gang Gang Dance,
Joensuu 1685,
UT,
Jeff Mills,
Index,
MDC,
The Electric Prunes,
Stetsasonic,
Los Fastidios,
Negative Approach,
Goldenarms,
Iggy Pop,
Monks,
Panda Bear,
Byron Stingily,
Gang Starr,
The Standells,
Brand Nubian,
Sly & The Family Stone,
LL Cool J,
Qualms,
Symarip,
Black Sheep,
Skriet,
The United States of America,
Michelle Simonal,
Teenage Jesus and the Jerks,
Flash Fearless,
The Golliwogs,
Selector Dub Narcotic,
X-101,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
The Moody Blues,
Bizarre Inc.,
Unwound,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Pantaleimon,
The Techniques,
Gabor Szabo,
Television Personalities,
Arthur Verocai,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
Jandek,
Frankie Knuckles,
Fatback Band,
Skarface,
Visage,
The Vogues,
Grauzone,
FM Einheit,
Country Teasers,
The Kinks,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
The Cosmic Jokers,
Kool Moe Dee, Kool Moe Dee, Kool Moe Dee, Kool Moe Dee.
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.