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 Bulgaria and from Philadelphia.
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 1965 to 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Lille and Halifax.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Lagos 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 rhodes sounds with much patience.
I was there when Robert Palmer 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 Jawbox to the grunge kids.
I played it at the Troubador.
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 Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch. All the underground hits.
All The Dave Clark Five tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Roxette 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 '60s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a güiro and a güiro and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Tom Boy record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a clarinet.
I hear that you and your band have sold your clarinet and bought a theremin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Dennis Brown,
Hasil Adkins,
London Community Gospel Choir,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
Donny Hathaway,
The Velvet Underground,
Anakelly,
UT,
X-Ray Spex,
The Walker Brothers,
These Immortal Souls,
Jeff Lynne,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Massinfluence,
Agitation Free,
Roger Hodgson,
Neil Young,
Yellowson,
Marmalade,
Darondo,
the Bar-Kays,
Leonard Cohen,
Ituana,
Kevin Saunderson,
The Misunderstood,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
The Monochrome Set,
Byron Stingily,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
Con Funk Shun,
Wings,
Terry Callier,
Jimmy McGriff,
Grauzone,
Funky Four + One,
Derrick May,
David Axelrod,
X-102,
It's A Beautiful Day,
China Crisis,
Jandek,
The Dead C,
Unwound,
Loose Ends,
The Flesh Eaters,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
Talk Talk,
The Sonics,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Sixth Finger,
Essential Logic,
The Move,
The Kinks,
Lalo Schifrin,
Roy Ayers Ubiquity,
OOIOO,
The Cure,
B.T. Express,
8 Eyed Spy,
The Trojans,
The Stooges,
Country Joe & The Fish, Country Joe & The Fish, Country Joe & The Fish, Country Joe & The Fish.
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.