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 Mauritius and from Winnipeg.
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 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Tokyo and Taipei.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Glasgow 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 linndrum sounds with much patience.
I was there when Captain Beefheart 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 Q and Not U to the disco kids.
I played it at the Crocodile.
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 Youth Brigade. All the underground hits.
All The Knickerbockers tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Boz Scaggs 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 '50s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a 808 and a linndrum and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a China Crisis record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a theremin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a sitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Deakin,
Neil Young,
World's Most,
CMW,
Cheater Slicks,
The Toasters,
Morten Harket,
Infiniti,
Aaron Thompson,
Swans,
London Community Gospel Choir,
Q and Not U,
Marc Romboy vs. Booka Shade,
Negative Approach,
Organ,
the Normal,
Faraquet,
Groovy Waters,
Simply Red,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
Deepchord,
The Smoke,
Qualms,
The Fall,
Bizarre Inc.,
Al Stewart,
Crime,
The Monochrome Set,
Sunsets and Hearts,
The Cosmic Jokers,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
the Germs,
Animal Collective,
The Velvet Underground,
Tears for Fears,
Gregory Isaacs,
The Beau Brummels,
Johnny Osbourne,
Larry & the Blue Notes,
Quadrant,
Sparks,
Nas,
Oblivians,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
Make Up,
Bill Near,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
Silicon Teens,
Joe Smooth,
Soul II Soul,
Minnie Riperton,
Television,
Chris & Cosey,
Alton Ellis,
Black Moon,
Wings,
Bill Wells,
Black Bananas,
Nation of Ulysses,
Althea and Donna,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
Shuggie Otis,
Blossom Toes,
The Human League,
Dual Sessions, Dual Sessions, Dual Sessions, Dual Sessions.
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.