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 Switzerland and from Salvador.
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 1966 to 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Manchester and Seoul.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Johannesburg 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 organ 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 Ossler to the grunge kids.
I played it at the Roxy.
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 Bobby Byrd. All the underground hits.
All Mars tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Royal Family And The Poor record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rock hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a rhodes and a sitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Technova record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a spring reverb.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a rhodes.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Moleskins,
Funky Four + One,
OOIOO,
The Evens,
The Residents,
Main Source,
Duran Duran,
E-Dancer,
Unwound,
Vladislav Delay,
Popol Vuh,
Tim Buckley,
X-102,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
Niagra,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
Henry Cow,
Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx,
Terrestrial Tones,
Fatback Band,
Sun City Girls,
Ponytail,
Gang Starr,
The Neon Judgement,
Jawbox,
The Fuzztones,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
Louis and Bebe Barron,
The Young Rascals,
Alphaville,
Delon & Dalcan,
Soul Sonic Force,
Heaven 17,
Camouflage,
Thee Headcoats,
Aloha Tigers,
Neil Young,
John Cale,
The American Breed,
The Pop Group,
Y Pants,
Reuben Wilson,
John Lydon,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
Zapp,
Joe Finger,
The Blues Magoos,
Minor Threat,
Art Ensemble Of Chicago,
Jerry Gold Smith,
Marc Almond,
The Saints,
The Vogues,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
Gong,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
The Doors,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
Malaria!,
Mo-Dettes,
The Associates, The Associates, The Associates, The Associates.
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.