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 Colombia and from Woodstock.
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 1969 to 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Beijing and Portland.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Lagos 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 1979 at the first Second Layer practice in a loft in South London.
I was working on the linndrum 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 The Searchers to the electroclash kids.
I played it at CBGB's.
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 Vaughan Mason & Crew. All the underground hits.
All The Monks tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Youth Brigade record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal disco hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a sitar and a guitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Birthday Party record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your arpeggiator and bought a linndrum.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought an arpeggiator.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
Freddie Wadling,
Dual Sessions,
the Soft Cell,
Au Pairs,
Wire,
Angels of Light & Akron/Family,
Marmalade,
Desert Stars,
Andrew Hill,
Y Pants,
Darondo,
Boredoms,
Metal Thangz,
Make Up,
Isaac Hayes,
Negative Approach,
The Sonics,
Kerrie Biddell,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Intrusion,
Bobby Hutcherson,
Bang on a Can All-Stars,
The Buckinghams,
New York Dolls,
The Leaves,
Barclay James Harvest,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
Aural Exciters,
Surgeon,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Pharoah Sanders,
Amon Düül II,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
The Happenings,
Rakim,
The Last Poets,
Michelle Simonal,
Juan Atkins,
Harmonia,
Sunsets and Hearts,
Zero Boys,
Kerri Chandler,
Soul Sonic Force,
The Moleskins,
Eric B and Rakim,
KRS-One,
Ash Ra Tempel,
Kenny Larkin,
Model 500,
Basic Channel,
Smog,
Can,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
a-ha,
Kool Moe Dee,
The Stooges,
Tropical Tobacco,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Sly & The Family Stone, Sly & The Family Stone, Sly & The Family Stone, Sly & The Family Stone.
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.