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 Serbia and from Lille.
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 1969 to 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Accra and Cairo.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Toronto 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 808 sounds with much patience.
I was there when Lou Reed 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 Raincoats to the funk kids.
I played it at the Crocodile.
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 Mission of Burma. All the underground hits.
All The Wake tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Sam Rivers 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 '80s.
I hear you're buying a mellotron and a spring reverb and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Fortunes record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought an organ.
I hear that you and your band have sold your organ and bought a theremin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Newcleus,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Girls At Our Best!,
Ronnie Foster,
Jesper Dahlback,
Gang Green,
Talk Talk,
John Cale,
Marshall Jefferson,
Frankie Knuckles,
Alphaville,
Make Up,
Roy Ayers Ubiquity,
Dawn Penn,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Model 500,
Nirvana,
Royal Trux,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Gil Scott Heron,
Maurizio,
Tubeway Army,
Symarip,
Aloha Tigers,
Lightning Bolt,
Terry Callier,
Rhythm & Sound,
The Grass Roots,
Q65,
X-Ray Spex,
Rites of Spring,
Sarah Menescal,
Brass Construction,
Loose Ends,
Wasted Youth,
Quando Quango,
Groovy Waters,
Goldenarms,
Lakeside,
Dave Gahan,
Tim Buckley,
T.S.O.L.,
The Busters,
Pharoah Sanders,
Colin Newman,
Sällskapet,
The Toasters,
Quantec,
Lower 48,
Stereo Dub,
The Dave Clark Five,
Lee Hazlewood,
Peter and Kerry,
The Sisters of Mercy,
Drexciya,
Little Man,
Wings,
The Knickerbockers,
The Saints,
Nico,
The Mighty Diamonds,
Scrapy,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell, N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell, N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell, N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell.
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.