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 Samoa and from Copenhagen.
But I was there.
I was there in 1971.
I was there at the first Big Star show in Memphis.
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 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Shanghai and Tokyo.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Sao Paulo 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 1983 at the first Lewis practice in a loft in Vancouver.
I was working on the rhodes sounds with much patience.
I was there when Nile Rodgers 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 ABBA to the punk kids.
I played it at the 40 Watt.
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 Infiniti. All the underground hits.
All Lungfish tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Gun Club record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rap 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 a marimba and a linndrum and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Television record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your organ and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought an organ.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Tremeloes,
The United States of America,
Chrome,
JFA,
The New Christs,
Young Marble Giants,
The Dead C,
Drexciya,
cv313,
Nation of Ulysses,
Fear,
The Trojans,
Arcadia,
Porter Ricks,
Juan Atkins,
Robert Görl,
Spoonie Gee,
Saccharine Trust,
T.S.O.L.,
D'Angelo,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Iggy Pop,
Jacob Miller,
Crispian St. Peters,
Ash Ra Tempel,
R.M.O.,
Sun City Girls,
Swell Maps,
Eyeless In Gaza,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
Alison Limerick,
Second Layer,
Agitation Free,
David Bowie,
Glambeats Corp.,
Beasts of Bourbon,
Gang Starr,
The Skatalites,
A Flock of Seagulls,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Soft Machine,
The Kinks,
The Misunderstood,
Neil Young,
Faraquet,
Amon Düül,
Lebanon Hanover,
Donald Byrd,
Slick Rick,
U.S. Maple,
Radiohead,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
K-Klass,
Thompson Twins,
Idris Muhammad,
Scan 7,
Quando Quango,
Pylon,
Warren Ellis,
Whodini,
Cluster,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
Curtis Mayfield, Curtis Mayfield, Curtis Mayfield, Curtis Mayfield.
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.