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 El Salvador and from Lille.
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 1964 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Glasgow and Manchester.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Glasgow 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 1980 at the first Cybotron practice in a loft in Detroit.
I was working on the theremin 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 Pretty Things to the punk 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 Interpol. All the underground hits.
All Thee Headcoats tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Sound record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal dance 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 sitar and a synthesizer and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Sun City Girls record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a sitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Pop Group,
The Moleskins,
Roy Ayers Ubiquity,
Carl Craig,
Sarah Menescal,
Cluster,
Roger Hodgson,
Chris & Cosey,
Lalann,
Fat Boys,
Brothers Johnson,
Blake Baxter,
Masters at Work,
Funkadelic,
Kings Of Tomorrow,
Louis and Bebe Barron,
Buzzcocks,
Hashim,
Lungfish,
Gabor Szabo,
The Smiths,
The Wake,
Thee Headcoats,
Talk Talk,
Eric Copeland,
World's Most,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
Junior Murvin,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
Amazonics,
Slave,
Jesper Dahlback,
The Saints,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
Camouflage,
Arthur Verocai,
MC5,
Black Flag,
Black Bananas,
Can,
Prince Buster,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
Boogie Down Productions,
the Germs,
David McCallum,
Country Joe & The Fish,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
Pussy Galore,
Gong,
Idris Muhammad,
Stetsasonic,
Y Pants,
Anakelly,
The Toasters,
The Velvet Underground,
Bootsy Collins,
Henry Cow,
Dorothy Ashby,
Roxette,
Eli Mardock,
The Standells,
Ronnie Foster,
Soul II Soul,
Minor Threat, Minor Threat, Minor Threat, Minor Threat.
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.