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 Tonga and from London.
But I was there.
I was there in 1971.
I was there at the first Neu! show in Düsseldorf.
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 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Cairo and London.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Lille 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 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 Scan 7 to the grunge 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 Reagan Youth. All the underground hits.
All Marcia Griffiths tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Duran Duran record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal crunk 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 theremin and a snare and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Robert Hood record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your organ and bought a theremin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought an organ.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
ABBA,
Newcleus,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
Gerry Rafferty,
Chris Corsano,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Mark Hollis,
Model 500,
Joe Finger,
The Angels of Light,
Fort Wilson Riot,
Eurythmics,
Roxette,
X-102,
OOIOO,
Trumans Water,
Ronnie Foster,
Eric Dolphy,
K-Klass,
The Motions,
Andrew Hill,
The Trojans,
Traffic Nightmare,
Tommy Roe,
The Stooges,
Eddi Front,
Girls At Our Best!,
Animal Collective,
Franke,
Kurtis Blow,
David McCallum,
Q and Not U,
Babytalk,
Reuben Wilson,
Jesper Dahlback,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Popol Vuh,
Thompson Twins,
Moss Icon,
The Fuzztones,
Sound Behaviour,
The Mojo Men,
Chrome,
Fifty Foot Hose,
Dorothy Ashby,
Ice-T,
Idris Muhammad,
Kas Product,
Kool Moe Dee,
Amon Düül,
New Age Steppers,
Procol Harum,
Radiohead,
Malaria!,
Schoolly D,
Ponytail,
Rites of Spring,
Khruangbin,
Man Eating Sloth,
Roxy Music,
Blossom Toes, Blossom Toes, Blossom Toes, Blossom Toes.
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.