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 Azerbaijan and from Columbus.
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 1965 to 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Accra and Glasgow.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school New York 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 synthesizer sounds with much patience.
I was there when Nile Rodgers 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 Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon to the jazz 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 Quadrant. All the underground hits.
All Marcia Griffiths tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Bobby Byrd 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 '50s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a sitar and a synthesizer and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Neil Young record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a spring reverb.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a linndrum.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
kango's stein massive,
Sällskapet,
Teenage Jesus and the Jerks,
Unwound,
Fluxion,
Buzzcocks,
Skaos,
Warsaw,
Moebius,
Pharoah Sanders,
Derrick Morgan,
Quantec,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
The Fall,
Neil Young,
Brass Construction,
Bobbi Humphrey,
Animal Collective,
Index,
Essential Logic,
Wally Richardson,
The Searchers,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
Public Image Ltd.,
Depeche Mode,
Ultra Naté,
Dark Day,
The Mighty Diamonds,
Josef K,
UT,
DNA,
Fugazi,
Mandrill,
Maleditus Sound,
Selector Dub Narcotic,
Darondo,
Brand Nubian,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Sugar Minott,
Louis and Bebe Barron,
Pantaleimon,
Cameo,
The Martian,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
Derrick May,
Sun Ra,
Tim Buckley,
Al Stewart,
Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme,
The Gories,
D'Angelo,
Scan 7,
The Dirtbombs,
10cc,
Eve St. Jones,
Bobby Hutcherson,
Robert Wyatt,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
Groovy Waters,
Gerry Rafferty, Gerry Rafferty, Gerry Rafferty, Gerry Rafferty.
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.