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 Haiti and from Milan.
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 1967 to 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Mumbai and Mexico City.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Spokane 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 sitar 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 Stetsasonic to the techno kids.
I played it at the Hacienda.
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 It's A Beautiful Day. All the underground hits.
All The Alarm Clocks tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Flamin' Groovies record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal funk 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 sitar and a guitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Count Five record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a chamberlin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Jesper Dahlbäck,
the Germs,
FM Einheit,
Ronan,
Jeff Mills,
Kaleidoscope,
Crispian St. Peters,
The Kinks,
Loose Ends,
Soul II Soul,
Electric Prunes,
Bauhaus,
Graham Central Station,
Tres Demented,
Underground Resistance,
Altered Images,
The Slackers,
The Gladiators,
Sly & The Family Stone,
Joy Division,
Index,
These Immortal Souls,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Spoonie Gee,
Kerrie Biddell,
Archie Shepp,
The Busters,
Kevin Saunderson,
Cybotron,
The Techniques,
Crispy Ambulance,
Barrington Levy,
Juan Atkins,
Matthew Bourne,
Bill Wells,
Essential Logic,
Aswad,
Gang Green,
Crooked Eye,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
The Blackbyrds,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
Dorothy Ashby,
Rosa Yemen,
Maurizio,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
Dave Gahan,
The Doobie Brothers,
Magazine,
DJ Style,
Zero Boys,
David McCallum,
Inner City,
Henry Cow,
Fat Boys,
Moss Icon,
Monolake,
Andrew Hill,
The Seeds,
the Bar-Kays,
The Barracudas,
Fatback Band,
The Count Five, The Count Five, The Count Five, The Count Five.
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.