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 Burundi and from New York.
But I was there.
I was there in 1973.
I was there at the first Television 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 1963 to 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Seoul and Milan.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Tokyo 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 rhodes sounds with much patience.
I was there when David Bowie 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 The Standells to the rap kids.
I played it at the Troubador.
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 MC5. All the underground hits.
All Kurtis Blow tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Ralphi Rosario 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 mellotron and a guitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Zeros record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a spring reverb.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb 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?
Moby Grape,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
Maurizio,
Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx,
Soul II Soul,
Glambeats Corp.,
Skriet,
Connie Case,
Stereo Dub,
World's Most,
The Cowsills,
Motorama,
Depeche Mode,
The Neon Judgement,
Bobby Sherman,
The Young Rascals,
The Barracudas,
Funkadelic,
Nick Fraelich,
Delta 5,
Loose Ends,
Blancmange,
Lalo Schifrin,
Adolescents,
Lungfish,
Davy DMX,
Jerry Gold Smith,
The Zeros,
Patti Smith,
Flash Fearless,
Basic Channel,
DJ Style,
X-Ray Spex,
Altered Images,
The Selecter,
Tom Boy,
Jerry's Kids,
This Heat,
Red Lorry Yellow Lorry,
Alton Ellis,
The Men They Couldn't Hang,
Marshall Jefferson,
Donny Hathaway,
Vladislav Delay,
Yazoo,
Matthew Bourne,
Talk Talk,
Iggy Pop,
Bobby Hutcherson,
The Monochrome Set,
Sound Behaviour,
Roger Hodgson,
Minny Pops,
These Immortal Souls,
Sparks,
Jesper Dahlback,
Fort Wilson Riot,
The Dead C,
The Litter,
Charles Mingus,
The Techniques, The Techniques, The Techniques, The Techniques.
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.