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 Laos and from Bologna.
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 1960 to 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Delhi and London.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Manila 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 1984 at the first Arcadia practice in a loft in London.
I was working on the marimba sounds with much patience.
I was there when Tom Verlaine 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 Mojo Men to the grunge kids.
I played it at the Roxy.
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 Bobby Hutcherson. All the underground hits.
All John Lydon tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Arcadia record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rap hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a theremin and a linndrum and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Angels of Light & Akron/Family record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your güiro and bought a rhodes.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a güiro.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Neu!,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
Tropical Tobacco,
Icehouse,
MC5,
Derrick Morgan,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
The Saints,
John Holt,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
Bob Dylan,
Alice Coltrane,
Spoonie Gee,
Unwound,
The Monks,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
Mars,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
Pantytec,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
Sun Ra,
The United States of America,
Lalann,
Dark Day,
The Doobie Brothers,
Brick,
Jeff Lynne,
The Moleskins,
Lee Hazlewood,
Bobby Byrd,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
Kas Product,
This Heat,
James Chance & The Contortions,
Louis and Bebe Barron,
Organ,
Bill Near,
The Last Poets,
Bad Manners,
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
Hasil Adkins,
Letta Mbulu,
The Pretty Things,
Terry Callier,
Roxette,
Soul Sonic Force,
Hoover,
Average White Band,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
Gastr Del Sol,
A Certain Ratio,
The Music Machine,
Gerry Rafferty,
Inner City,
Sly & The Family Stone,
The Dead C,
Godley & Creme,
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Man Parrish,
Joe Smooth,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
Donny Hathaway, Donny Hathaway, Donny Hathaway, Donny Hathaway.
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.