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 Sudan and from Lille.
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 1962 to 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Columbus and Salvador.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Woodstock 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 synthesizer 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 Fifty Foot Hose to the funk kids.
I played it at the 40 Watt.
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 Jerry Gold Smith. All the underground hits.
All Interpol tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Talk Talk record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal jazz hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a guitar and a guitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Blossom Toes record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a theremin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
The Human League,
The Gladiators,
Drive Like Jehu,
Accadde A,
The Leaves,
Section 25,
The Cowsills,
Wasted Youth,
The Durutti Column,
Das Ding,
Robert Hood,
Sexual Harrassment,
Crash Course in Science,
Shoche,
Rekid,
Neu!,
Marshall Jefferson,
D'Angelo,
The Slackers,
Louis and Bebe Barron,
Archie Shepp,
The Gories,
8 Eyed Spy,
Ultravox,
Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme,
A Certain Ratio,
Frankie Knuckles,
Lalo Schifrin,
Max Romeo,
The Skatalites,
Sonic Youth,
Subhumans,
Essential Logic,
Oppenheimer Analysis,
Mary Jane Girls,
Scratch Acid,
Grandmaster Flash,
B.T. Express,
Kerrie Biddell,
Harpers Bizarre,
Vladislav Delay,
Nils Olav,
Leonard Cohen,
Masters at Work,
LL Cool J,
Khruangbin,
The Velvet Underground,
Slave,
New Order,
Rakim,
Lakeside,
UT,
Joey Negro,
Sandy B,
Pagans,
Cluster,
Lightning Bolt,
Moss Icon,
Popol Vuh,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell, N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell, N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell, N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell.
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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.