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 Bolivia and from Columbus.
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 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Calgary and Copenhagen.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Delhi 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 1968 at the first Bowie practice in a loft in Bromley.
I was working on the spring reverb 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 AZ to the punk kids.
I played it at the Spitz.
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 Cymande. All the underground hits.
All Amon Düül tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Ronan 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 '60s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a spring reverb and a guitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a A Flock of Seagulls record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a rhodes.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Soul Sonic Force,
Nick Fraelich,
Robert Hood,
Ituana,
Slick Rick,
Marshall Jefferson,
Maurizio,
Los Fastidios,
Pagans,
Joensuu 1685,
John Coltrane,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
Joey Negro,
Pierre Henry,
Eli Mardock,
Rufus Thomas,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Depeche Mode,
The Invisible,
Bobby Hutcherson,
Shuggie Otis,
Godley & Creme,
Spandau Ballet,
Neil Young,
Soulsonic Force,
PIL,
Drive Like Jehu,
The Shadows of Knight,
Tropical Tobacco,
Minny Pops,
Rosa Yemen,
Simply Red,
Guru Guru,
Cecil Taylor,
Thompson Twins,
Amon Düül,
Blancmange,
Jeff Mills,
Kaleidoscope,
Yellowson,
Sound Behaviour,
the Swans,
Colin Newman,
Eric Copeland,
Model 500,
Spoonie Gee,
Avey Tare's Slasher Flicks,
Fatback Band,
Cluster,
Iggy Pop,
Siglo XX,
Blossom Toes,
CMW,
Bob Dylan,
Dorothy Ashby,
The Stooges,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark,
Al Stewart,
Rapeman,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Index,
Lou Reed & Metallica, Lou Reed & Metallica, Lou Reed & Metallica, Lou Reed & Metallica.
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.