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 Angola and from Paris.
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 1967 to 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Jakarta and Johannesburg.
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 1973 at the first Television practice in a loft in New York.
I was working on the guitar sounds with much patience.
I was there when Michael McDonald 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 The Sisters of Mercy to the dance kids.
I played it at the Spitz.
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 Jeff Lynne. All the underground hits.
All Peter and Kerry tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Divine Comedy record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal dance hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a spring reverb and an oboe and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Justin Hinds & The Dominoes record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a chamberlin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a spring reverb.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Shadows of Knight,
Yazoo,
Jerry Gold Smith,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
The Move,
Louis and Bebe Barron,
Traffic Nightmare,
Barry Ungar,
The Black Dice,
The Techniques,
Bobby Hutcherson,
Jerry's Kids,
Bootsy Collins,
Television,
Young Marble Giants,
Art Ensemble Of Chicago,
The Raincoats,
Sun City Girls,
Surgeon,
Goldenarms,
Darondo,
Bizarre Inc.,
Shuggie Otis,
Underground Resistance,
Hardrive,
Grandmaster Flash,
The Sisters of Mercy,
Barclay James Harvest,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
The Divine Comedy,
Rapeman,
Nick Fraelich,
Symarip,
Sight & Sound,
OOIOO,
Jandek,
KRS-One,
Alison Limerick,
Wings,
the Soft Cell,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Saccharine Trust,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
Vainqueur,
Donny Hathaway,
Dawn Penn,
Soul II Soul,
Hot Snakes,
Scott Walker,
Eric Copeland,
Lightning Bolt,
Delta 5,
Scientists,
The Count Five,
Audionom,
Bluetip,
Marshall Jefferson,
Max Romeo,
John Coltrane,
Guru Guru,
Dennis Brown, Dennis Brown, Dennis Brown, Dennis Brown.
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.