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 Kuwait and from New York.
But I was there.
I was there in 1973.
I was there at the first Television show in New York.
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 1960 to 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in New York and Glasgow.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Mumbai 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 snare sounds with much patience.
I was there when Nile Rodgers 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 Count Five to the rap 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 Jawbox. All the underground hits.
All The Cramps tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Boredoms record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal jazz 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 clarinet and an organ and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Godley & Creme record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Surgeon,
Eddi Front,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
Saccharine Trust,
Scratch Acid,
Lou Reed,
Unwound,
Spandau Ballet,
Electric Prunes,
Echospace,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
Half Japanese,
Dark Day,
The Seeds,
Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft,
Bad Manners,
Intrusion,
T. Rex,
The Motions,
Andrew Hill,
Das Ding,
Ronan,
Kas Product,
Youth Brigade,
Magma,
Lou Christie,
Sparks,
The Happenings,
Scott Walker,
Cluster,
Sugar Minott,
Ten City,
Gang Starr,
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
Roy Ayers Ubiquity,
Terry Callier,
Niagra,
Lee Hazlewood,
Funkadelic,
Barry Ungar,
Unrelated Segments,
Cybotron,
The Slits,
The American Breed,
Beasts of Bourbon,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
Angels of Light & Akron/Family,
Ice-T,
Boz Scaggs,
Monolake,
Groovy Waters,
Sun Ra,
Mission of Burma,
Toni Rubio,
The Modern Lovers,
The United States of America,
Louis and Bebe Barron,
Skaos,
Suburban Knight,
The Invisible,
ABBA,
The Dave Clark Five,
Grey Daturas,
One Last Wish, One Last Wish, One Last Wish, One Last Wish.
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.