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 Australia and from New York.
But I was there.
I was there in 1977.
I was there at the first Zapp show in Hamilton.
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 1961 to 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Accra and Milan.
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 1968 at the first Bowie practice in a loft in Bromley.
I was working on the güiro sounds with much patience.
I was there when David Bowie 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 Manfred Mann's Earth Band 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 Minutemen. All the underground hits.
All The Misunderstood tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Bootsy Collins record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal punk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a linndrum and a chamberlin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Flash Fearless record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought a mellotron.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a snare.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Residents,
Shuggie Otis,
Cybotron,
The Cramps,
Moss Icon,
Stereo Dub,
Depeche Mode,
The Doobie Brothers,
Kango’s Stein Massive,
Lee Hazlewood,
Boz Scaggs,
Graham Central Station,
Swell Maps,
Banda Bassotti,
Ornette Coleman,
Gerry Rafferty,
Scott Walker,
The Smoke,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
David McCallum,
Vainqueur,
Parry Music,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
Qualms,
Frankie Knuckles,
Gastr Del Sol,
Eric Copeland,
Jerry's Kids,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
Eddi Front,
Boredoms,
Rhythm & Sound,
Jeff Lynne,
The Dead C,
Minny Pops,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
Adolescents,
Lungfish,
Rotary Connection,
FM Einheit,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
Ice-T,
The Standells,
Audionom,
Roy Ayers,
Bronski Beat,
Livin' Joy,
JFA,
Lightning Bolt,
Black Flag,
Slave,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Black Moon,
Ultimate Spinach,
Drive Like Jehu,
Anakelly,
Zapp,
Main Source,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
DNA,
Rites of Spring, Rites of Spring, Rites of Spring, Rites of Spring.
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.