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 Macedonia and from Philadelphia.
But I was there.
I was there in 1976.
I was there at the first Feelies show in Haledon.
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 1968 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Tokyo and Madrid.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Lyon 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 1976 at the first Buzzcocks practice in a loft in Bolton.
I was working on the rhodes sounds with much patience.
I was there when Donald Fagen 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 Gun Club to the techno 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 Donald Byrd. All the underground hits.
All Kaleidoscope tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Vaughan Mason & Crew record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal techno hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a sitar and a rhodes and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your clarinet and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a clarinet.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson,
Steve Hackett,
Moby Grape,
Von Mondo,
Half Japanese,
Zero Boys,
Theoretical Girls,
Wire,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
Patti Smith,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
The Barracudas,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
Gong,
Accadde A,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
Amazonics,
Q and Not U,
Bobby Womack,
The American Breed,
Sight & Sound,
Youth Brigade,
Pet Shop Boys,
The Star Department,
Tim Buckley,
Easy Going,
Glenn Branca,
Derrick Morgan,
Richard Hell and the Voidoids,
Curtis Mayfield,
Ossler,
Nick Fraelich,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Inner City,
Pussy Galore,
Warsaw,
Ornette Coleman,
Ash Ra Tempel,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
Rotary Connection,
Intrusion,
The Toasters,
Junior Murvin,
The Walker Brothers,
Simply Red,
Henry Cow,
Angry Samoans,
Minnie Riperton,
Subhumans,
Tomorrow,
Jimmy McGriff,
Skriet,
the Fania All-Stars,
The Tremeloes,
Marmalade,
Derrick May,
Faust,
Ultra Naté,
Television Personalities,
Symarip,
Nation of Ulysses,
Siglo XX,
Oblivians, Oblivians, Oblivians, Oblivians.
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.