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 Portugal and from Toronto.
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 1961 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Cairo and Sao Paulo.
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 1973 at the first Television practice in a loft in New York.
I was working on the rhodes sounds with much patience.
I was there when Holger Czukay 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 Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane to the electroclash kids.
I played it at the Troubador.
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 Shoche. All the underground hits.
All Barrington Levy tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Steve Hackett record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grime 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 guitar and a snare and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Bad Manners record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a 808.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Eve St. Jones,
Banda Bassotti,
The Kinks,
Mars,
Pierre Henry,
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark,
Sam Rivers,
Boz Scaggs,
Lou Christie,
Quantec,
Beasts of Bourbon,
June Days,
The Alarm Clocks,
Grauzone,
Harmonia,
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
Yellowson,
Essential Logic,
The Divine Comedy,
Shoche,
Saccharine Trust,
Lou Reed,
Warren Ellis,
Swans,
Blossom Toes,
The Pretty Things,
Silicon Teens,
New Order,
Donny Hathaway,
Jacob Miller,
The Raincoats,
Neil Young,
Sandy B,
Crispian St. Peters,
Fluxion,
James White and The Blacks,
Qualms,
Sound Behaviour,
Boogie Down Productions,
Gian Franco Pienzio,
Q65,
Tim Buckley,
Johnny Clarke,
Joe Finger,
Wings,
Jandek,
Bobby Byrd,
The Doobie Brothers,
Junior Murvin,
KRS-One,
Hoover,
Thee Headcoats,
John Lydon,
Groovy Waters,
Ash Ra Tempel,
Funkadelic,
Jawbox,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Index,
Camouflage,
The Smoke,
Oblivians,
Glambeats Corp., Glambeats Corp., Glambeats Corp., Glambeats Corp..
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.