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 Tanzania and from Edmonton.
But I was there.
I was there in 1978.
I was there at the first Visage show in London.
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 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Hong Kong and Portland.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Houston 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 Lou Reed 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 Bobby Hutcherson to the electroclash 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 Crash Course in Science. All the underground hits.
All New Age Steppers tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Flamin' Groovies record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rock 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 chamberlin and a guitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Delta 5 record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a rhodes.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Yaz,
Half Japanese,
Alphaville,
Slave,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
Delta 5,
Scrapy,
10cc,
X-101,
A Certain Ratio,
The Slits,
Frankie Knuckles,
Flash Fearless,
The Zeros,
Freddie Wadling,
Ten City,
Lucky Dragons,
Roger Hodgson,
Chris & Cosey,
Angry Samoans,
Cameo,
David Axelrod,
The Litter,
John Cale,
Marc Romboy vs. Booka Shade,
Pet Shop Boys,
The Martian,
Boredoms,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
The Remains,
JFA,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
Groovy Waters,
Rakim,
Roy Ayers,
The Human League,
AZ,
Robert Wyatt,
Accadde A,
Art Ensemble Of Chicago,
The Blues Magoos,
the Association,
Clear Light,
Tears for Fears,
Infiniti,
Connie Case,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Anthony Braxton,
Glenn Branca,
Barrington Levy,
Marc Almond,
The Moleskins,
Shuggie Otis,
Strawberry Alarm Clock,
The Shadows of Knight,
The Walker Brothers,
Ituana,
Rapeman,
Aloha Tigers,
Rotary Connection,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Alice Coltrane,
Kas Product, Kas Product, Kas Product, Kas Product.
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.