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 Korea South and from Bremen.
But I was there.
I was there in 1976.
I was there at the first Buzzcocks show in Bolton.
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 1965 to 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Glasgow and Hong Kong.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Jakarta 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 1984 at the first Arcadia practice in a loft in London.
I was working on the güiro 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 Manfred Mann's Earth Band to the disco kids.
I played it at Cafe Wha.
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 Con Funk Shun. All the underground hits.
All the Human League tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Black Bananas record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rap hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a guitar and an arpeggiator and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Joe Finger record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a mellotron.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Eric Dolphy,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
The Dave Clark Five,
Joyce Sims,
Lee Hazlewood,
Boz Scaggs,
The Dirtbombs,
Von Mondo,
Tom Boy,
Flamin' Groovies,
CMW,
Harmonia,
Steve Hackett,
Deakin,
Nation of Ulysses,
Joensuu 1685,
The Remains,
The Count Five,
Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson,
Peter & Gordon,
8 Eyed Spy,
Gang Starr,
The Moleskins,
F. McDonald,
Skarface,
Public Enemy,
The Wake,
The Shadows of Knight,
Drive Like Jehu,
Guru Guru,
Pantaleimon,
Avey Tare,
Grauzone,
The Peanut Butter Conspiracy,
Dave Gahan,
Spandau Ballet,
Soft Machine,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
The Red Krayola,
Pharoah Sanders,
Erasure,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
The Birthday Party,
the Human League,
Cymande,
Big Daddy Kane,
Sällskapet,
The Victims,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
The Smoke,
Yazoo,
The Sonics,
Anthony Braxton,
Basic Channel,
Hasil Adkins,
A Flock of Seagulls,
Eddi Front,
June of 44,
Rufus Thomas,
Zapp,
Stereo Dub, Stereo Dub, Stereo Dub, Stereo Dub.
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.