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 Indonesia and from Philadelphia.
But I was there.
I was there in 1967.
I was there at the first Rodriguez show in Detroit.
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 1960 to 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Columbus and Tokyo.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Johannesburg 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 chamberlin 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 Gastr Del Sol to the grime kids.
I played it at Trash.
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 Stetsasonic. All the underground hits.
All Roxette tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Golliwogs 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 '50s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a guitar and a rhodes and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Simply Red record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a spring reverb.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a 808.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Lalo Schifrin,
The Fugs,
R.M.O.,
Depeche Mode,
Gregory Isaacs,
Fifty Foot Hose,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Patti Smith,
Idris Muhammad,
Shuggie Otis,
The Move,
Ludus,
The Blues Magoos,
Lou Reed,
B.T. Express,
Soul II Soul,
8 Eyed Spy,
Black Bananas,
The Beau Brummels,
the Slits,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
Simply Red,
The Saints,
Sixth Finger,
June Days,
Rapeman,
kango's stein massive,
Liaisons Dangereuses,
T. Rex,
Amazonics,
Gichy Dan,
Public Image Ltd.,
New Age Steppers,
Second Layer,
The Jesus and Mary Chain,
It's A Beautiful Day,
Maurizio,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
Ronnie Foster,
Unwound,
Make Up,
the Fania All-Stars,
Yusef Lateef,
Qualms,
Stiv Bators,
Danielle Patucci,
Flipper,
Funkadelic,
Heaven 17,
Basic Channel,
Oblivians,
The Trojans,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
The Cramps,
Gastr Del Sol,
Pole,
Vladislav Delay,
The Grass Roots,
Sarah Menescal,
Erasure,
Stockholm Monsters,
Alphaville, Alphaville, Alphaville, Alphaville.
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.