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 Cuba and from Sao Paulo.
But I was there.
I was there in 1983.
I was there at the first Lewis show in Vancouver.
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 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Philadelphia and Milan.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Paris 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 güiro sounds with much patience.
I was there when Lou Reed 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 B.T. Express to the grime kids.
I played it at Cafe Wha.
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 The Sonics. All the underground hits.
All The Alarm Clocks tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Liliput record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal disco hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a spring reverb and a mellotron and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a UT record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a sitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
OOIOO,
Flamin' Groovies,
Faraquet,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Don Cherry,
The Mighty Diamonds,
The Shadows of Knight,
Al Stewart,
Ice-T,
The Trojans,
The Toasters,
Gong,
10cc,
Tommy Roe,
Aloha Tigers,
Pet Shop Boys,
London Community Gospel Choir,
The Remains,
The Durutti Column,
L. Decosne,
Aaron Thompson,
Duran Duran,
Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson,
Peter and Kerry,
Gerry Rafferty,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Louis and Bebe Barron,
The Electric Prunes,
Minutemen,
Echo & the Bunnymen,
Radiohead,
Vainqueur,
Amazonics,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Siglo XX,
Aswad,
Zapp,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
Reagan Youth,
Suicide,
Erykah Badu,
Cluster,
Masters at Work,
Flash Fearless,
Eden Ahbez,
the Association,
The Litter,
Brass Construction,
Fluxion,
Dead Boys,
Heaven 17,
Gang Green,
Theoretical Girls,
Lakeside,
Whodini,
The Standells,
Lebanon Hanover,
Bill Wells,
Delon & Dalcan, Delon & Dalcan, Delon & Dalcan, Delon & Dalcan.
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.