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 Dominican Republic and from Paris.
But I was there.
I was there in 1977.
I was there at the first Human League show in Sheffield.
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 Calgary and Columbus.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Delhi 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 snare sounds with much patience.
I was there when Donald Fagen 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 Toasters to the rap 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 Warren Ellis. All the underground hits.
All Eden Ahbez tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Goldenarms record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grunge 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 mellotron and a güiro and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Martian record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Monochrome Set,
Selector Dub Narcotic,
The Zeros,
Camberwell Now,
Terry Callier,
The Skatalites,
The Sisters of Mercy,
Louis and Bebe Barron,
Bang on a Can All-Stars,
The Offenders,
Motorama,
Sex Pistols,
The Misunderstood,
Nas,
Marmalade,
Maleditus Sound,
F. McDonald,
Sly & The Family Stone,
World's Most,
Delta 5,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
The Pop Group,
Sight & Sound,
cv313,
Crispian St. Peters,
Joey Negro,
The Invisible,
Graham Central Station,
John Cale,
Patti Smith,
KRS-One,
Lou Reed,
Ultimate Spinach,
The Wake,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
The Fire Engines,
Echospace,
Ronan,
The Seeds,
Pantaleimon,
Erykah Badu,
Smog,
Model 500,
The Buckinghams,
Fatback Band,
Icehouse,
Big Daddy Kane,
Soft Cell,
Crooked Eye,
Ash Ra Tempel,
Leonard Cohen,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Amon Düül II,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
Aloha Tigers,
Crime,
B.T. Express,
Lalann,
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band,
The Last Poets,
Davy DMX,
Jimmy McGriff,
Terrestrial Tones,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz, Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz, Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz, Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz.
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.