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 Liberia and from Delhi.
But I was there.
I was there in 1979.
I was there at the first Second Layer show in South London.
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 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Manila and Stockholm.
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 1971 at the first Big Star practice in a loft in Memphis.
I was working on the harpsichord sounds with much patience.
I was there when Michael McDonald 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 Rod Modell to the funk kids.
I played it at Trash.
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 Toni Rubio. All the underground hits.
All Nils Olav tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Gories 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 '60s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a theremin and a guitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Essential Logic record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a rhodes.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Janne Schatter,
Fifty Foot Hose,
Mark Hollis,
Underground Resistance,
Crispian St. Peters,
The Modern Lovers,
Monks,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
The Sisters of Mercy,
The Peanut Butter Conspiracy,
the Normal,
Blake Baxter,
Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme,
Arcadia,
The Doobie Brothers,
The Dave Clark Five,
Bluetip,
Sister Nancy,
Ossler,
The Remains,
Theoretical Girls,
Kayak,
Richard Hell and the Voidoids,
Los Fastidios,
Dennis Brown,
Sarah Menescal,
Gang of Four,
the Human League,
The Slackers,
The Jesus and Mary Chain,
Todd Terry,
The Moody Blues,
Lebanon Hanover,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Gang Gang Dance,
Accadde A,
Mars,
The Blues Magoos,
The Victims,
John Cale,
LL Cool J,
Yusef Lateef,
Arab on Radar,
Joy Division,
Soulsonic Force,
Iggy Pop,
The Associates,
Curtis Mayfield,
Pole,
Fluxion,
Wolf Eyes,
Alton Ellis,
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark,
A Certain Ratio,
Ice-T,
Piero Umiliani,
Roxette,
The Black Dice,
Terry Callier, Terry Callier, Terry Callier, Terry Callier.
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.