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 Finland and from Lyon.
But I was there.
I was there in 1976.
I was there at the first Chic show in New York.
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 1968 to 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Seoul and Houston.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Houston 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 808 sounds with much patience.
I was there when Tom Verlaine 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 Liliput to the rap kids.
I played it at CBGB's.
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 Mars. All the underground hits.
All Soft Machine tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Motions 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 '50s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a rhodes and a marimba and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Schoolly D record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought an arpeggiator.
I hear that you and your band have sold your arpeggiator and bought a rhodes.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Stooges,
The Fuzztones,
The Shadows of Knight,
Hoover,
Pierre Henry,
Fear,
Chris Corsano,
Lightning Bolt,
Althea and Donna,
the Association,
Unrelated Segments,
Joey Negro,
Stetsasonic,
The Standells,
Moss Icon,
The Invisible,
Harpers Bizarre,
Stockholm Monsters,
ABBA,
Skarface,
Aloha Tigers,
Lee Hazlewood,
The Music Machine,
Wally Richardson,
Scrapy,
The J.B.'s,
Man Eating Sloth,
Quando Quango,
Cluster,
Cybotron,
Saccharine Trust,
Lalo Schifrin,
Ralphi Rosario,
Amon Düül,
Joy Division,
Ossler,
Deepchord,
Jacob Miller,
Gregory Isaacs,
Magazine,
The Pop Group,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
Deadbeat,
Oneida,
Bill Wells,
Iggy Pop,
The Raincoats,
Warren Ellis,
Deakin,
Model 500,
New Order,
John Cale,
Neil Young,
The Monks,
John Holt,
Grauzone,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
Groovy Waters,
Rakim,
The Skatalites,
Chrome,
cv313, cv313, cv313, cv313.
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.