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 St Kitts & Nevis and from Calgary.
But I was there.
I was there in 1976.
I was there at the first Buzzcocks show in Bolton.
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 1966 to 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in New York and Mexico City.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Spokane 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 1967 at the first Rodriguez practice in a loft in Detroit.
I was working on the oboe 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 Mary Jane Girls to the grunge 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 The Alarm Clocks. All the underground hits.
All KRS-One tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grunge 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 guitar and a harpsichord and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Zero Boys record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your güiro and bought a güiro.
I hear that you and your band have sold your güiro and bought a güiro.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
It's A Beautiful Day,
Soft Machine,
Boz Scaggs,
Idris Muhammad,
Malaria!,
Average White Band,
The Jesus and Mary Chain,
Crash Course in Science,
The Vogues,
Delta 5,
Ice-T,
Marc Almond,
Gregory Isaacs,
The Techniques,
Minnie Riperton,
Roy Ayers,
Groovy Waters,
Sex Pistols,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
Tom Boy,
Nico,
Wire,
Buzzcocks,
The Mighty Diamonds,
The Stooges,
Zero Boys,
Sällskapet,
Arcadia,
Bronski Beat,
Angry Samoans,
This Heat,
Camouflage,
The Gories,
Bill Near,
Joy Division,
The Gladiators,
Loose Ends,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
Swell Maps,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
Janne Schatter,
Carl Craig,
The Birthday Party,
Reagan Youth,
Henry Cow,
DJ Style,
Terrestrial Tones,
Spoonie Gee,
Brothers Johnson,
Quantec,
The Wake,
Erasure,
T.S.O.L.,
Nas,
The Associates,
Excepter,
The Victims,
Shuggie Otis,
The Gap Band,
Sam Rivers,
Archie Shepp,
MC5,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Television Personalities,
Sixth Finger, Sixth Finger, Sixth Finger, Sixth Finger.
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.