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 Spain and from Johannesburg.
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 1967 to 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Shanghai and Tehran.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Manchester 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 organ sounds with much patience.
I was there when Robert Palmer 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 Warsaw to the punk kids.
I played it at the Astoria.
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 Sarah Menescal. All the underground hits.
All The Remains tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Minor Threat 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 '80s.
I hear you're buying a guitar and a synthesizer and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Public Image Ltd. record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a 808.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Grass Roots,
Absolute Body Control,
Freddie Wadling,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
Matthew Halsall,
kango's stein massive,
Gian Franco Pienzio,
The Dirtbombs,
Letta Mbulu,
Sonic Youth,
Smog,
Liaisons Dangereuses,
The Wake,
Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx,
The Standells,
Visage,
U.S. Maple,
cv313,
Moss Icon,
The Count Five,
Godley & Creme,
The Fugs,
Bobby Hutcherson,
Brand Nubian,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
MDC,
The Zeros,
X-102,
The Blackbyrds,
Chrome,
Aloha Tigers,
Barbara Tucker,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
It's A Beautiful Day,
Pharoah Sanders,
The Cowsills,
Rapeman,
Mo-Dettes,
The Victims,
Leonard Cohen,
Neil Young,
Soft Cell,
Ultravox,
Albert Ayler,
Bang On A Can,
Stetsasonic,
Eli Mardock,
Ten City,
Eddi Front,
The Black Dice,
Lebanon Hanover,
The Techniques,
Soul Sonic Force,
Warsaw,
Gang Starr,
Minor Threat,
Anthony Braxton,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Amon Düül,
Drive Like Jehu,
The Doors, The Doors, The Doors, The Doors.
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.