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 Honduras and from Lyon.
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 1960 to 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Bremen and Columbus.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Taipei 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 1979 at the first Josef K practice in a loft in Edinburgh.
I was working on the clarinet 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 Sun Ra to the electroclash 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 Womack. All the underground hits.
All Josef K tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Surgeon record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal crunk 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 an oboe and a guitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Roxy Music record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a spring reverb.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Alphaville,
Pierre Henry,
The Litter,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
Bobby Hutcherson,
The Happenings,
Pharoah Sanders,
New Age Steppers,
The Standells,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
Siglo XX,
Toni Rubio,
Jandek,
Yusef Lateef,
Peter and Kerry,
Public Enemy,
DJ Sneak,
Morten Harket,
The Golliwogs,
The Mojo Men,
Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson,
Q65,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
The Men They Couldn't Hang,
Lightning Bolt,
Scan 7,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
Ohio Players,
Amon Düül,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
The Monochrome Set,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
The Motions,
Letta Mbulu,
Neu!,
Marcia Griffiths,
Sly & The Family Stone,
Curtis Mayfield,
Teenage Jesus and the Jerks,
Althea and Donna,
Section 25,
Second Layer,
Idris Muhammad,
Kool Moe Dee,
Isaac Hayes,
London Community Gospel Choir,
Ralphi Rosario,
Vladislav Delay,
Richard Hell and the Voidoids,
Peter & Gordon,
Soft Machine,
Tubeway Army,
Moss Icon,
Amazonics,
Al Stewart,
Goldenarms,
Black Bananas,
Crispy Ambulance,
Joe Finger,
Pantytec, Pantytec, Pantytec, Pantytec.
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.