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 Bolivia and from Seoul.
But I was there.
I was there in 1977.
I was there at the first Zapp show in Hamilton.
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 1961 to 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Lyon and Lagos.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Columbus 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 organ 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 John Foxx to the jazz kids.
I played it at Cafe Wha.
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 Accadde A. All the underground hits.
All Liaisons Dangereuses tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Alice Coltrane record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal punk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a güiro and a sitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Babytalk record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought an organ.
I hear that you and your band have sold your organ and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Soul II Soul,
Mary Jane Girls,
Eyeless In Gaza,
Steve Hackett,
Livin' Joy,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
Crime,
Fluxion,
The Sonics,
Scratch Acid,
E-Dancer,
Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson,
Gang Green,
Pagans,
The Doobie Brothers,
Electric Prunes,
The Busters,
Banda Bassotti,
Cymande,
Louis and Bebe Barron,
Eddi Front,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
The Five Americans,
Joe Finger,
New Order,
Ornette Coleman,
Radiopuhelimet,
Derrick Morgan,
The Gap Band,
James White and The Blacks,
Smog,
Terry Callier,
Average White Band,
Erasure,
Gabor Szabo,
Television Personalities,
Boogie Down Productions,
The Tremeloes,
Robert Görl,
Matthew Bourne,
The Names,
ABC,
Agitation Free,
Negative Approach,
Deepchord,
The Gladiators,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
The Cosmic Jokers,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Glambeats Corp.,
Wally Richardson,
Simply Red,
The Velvet Underground,
Leonard Cohen,
The Slackers,
Bang On A Can,
Marshall Jefferson,
The Fire Engines,
The Raincoats,
Accadde A,
Warsaw,
Glenn Branca,
Pussy Galore,
FM Einheit, FM Einheit, FM Einheit, FM Einheit.
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.