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 Honduras and from Portland.
But I was there.
I was there in 1971.
I was there at the first Selda show in Istanbul.
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 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Salvador and London.
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 1976 at the first Buzzcocks practice in a loft in Bolton.
I was working on the organ sounds with much patience.
I was there when Michael McDonald 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 Wings to the funk 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 Tres Demented. All the underground hits.
All Babytalk tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Basic Channel record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rock 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 a güiro and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a In Retrospect record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your güiro and bought a snare.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought a güiro.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Wake,
The Beau Brummels,
Guru Guru,
Panda Bear,
Stockholm Monsters,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
Circle Jerks,
Surgeon,
The Real Kids,
Lebanon Hanover,
Depeche Mode,
Japan,
Barry Ungar,
Erasure,
Letta Mbulu,
The Sonics,
Gang Green,
Barbara Tucker,
Stiv Bators,
Eden Ahbez,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
Al Stewart,
Unrelated Segments,
Harmonia,
Fifty Foot Hose,
Anakelly,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Tommy Roe,
The Skatalites,
Joyce Sims,
Stetsasonic,
The Selecter,
Kaleidoscope,
The Cure,
Suicide,
The Blackbyrds,
Agitation Free,
Harry Pussy,
Pylon,
Blake Baxter,
Blossom Toes,
Main Source,
Boogie Down Productions,
Cameo,
Deepchord,
Moss Icon,
Shuggie Otis,
Infiniti,
Sexual Harrassment,
Spandau Ballet,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Youth Brigade,
Visage,
T.S.O.L.,
Au Pairs,
Rufus Thomas,
Louis and Bebe Barron,
The Alarm Clocks,
Gregory Isaacs,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
Severed Heads,
ABC,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds, Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds, Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds, Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds.
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.