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 Guinea and from Tokyo.
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 1961 to 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Copenhagen and Paris.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Paris 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 2001 at the first Tiga practice in a loft in Montreal.
I was working on the chamberlin sounds with much patience.
I was there when Robert Palmer 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 Gong 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 the Swans. All the underground hits.
All Black Flag tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Pantytec record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grunge hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a clarinet and a rhodes and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a harpsichord.
I hear that you and your band have sold your harpsichord and bought a mellotron.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Pere Ubu,
The Red Krayola,
Panda Bear,
Todd Rundgren,
Tommy Roe,
Radiopuhelimet,
Scratch Acid,
Ultravox,
The Wake,
The Mummies,
Von Mondo,
Pulsallama,
Slick Rick,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
The Kinks,
Vainqueur,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
Wire,
Buzzcocks,
Eric B and Rakim,
The Five Americans,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
Peter & Gordon,
Gastr Del Sol,
R.M.O.,
The Trojans,
Charles Mingus,
Swell Maps,
Section 25,
The American Breed,
Flipper,
Jerry's Kids,
Ultra Naté,
Bizarre Inc.,
Man Parrish,
Minutemen,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
Unwound,
Amazonics,
Suicide,
Royal Trux,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Boogie Down Productions,
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band,
David McCallum,
Duran Duran,
Erasure,
K-Klass,
Stereo Dub,
China Crisis,
The Doobie Brothers,
Bobby Sherman,
Pylon,
T. Rex,
Moss Icon,
Joe Smooth,
June of 44,
Josef K,
A Flock of Seagulls,
Erykah Badu,
Black Flag,
Bill Wells,
The Grass Roots, The Grass Roots, The Grass Roots, The Grass Roots.
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.