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 Belgium and from Bologna.
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 Houston and Copenhagen.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Bologna 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 1987 at the first Nirvana practice in a loft in Seattle.
I was working on the linndrum 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 Audionom to the crunk kids.
I played it at the Troubador.
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 Bill Wells. All the underground hits.
All Bill Near tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every UT record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal punk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a sitar and a linndrum and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Dark Day record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a chamberlin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a mellotron.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Kenny Larkin,
Japan,
Simply Red,
Siglo XX,
The J.B.'s,
Darondo,
Richard Hell and the Voidoids,
F. McDonald,
Gichy Dan,
Barclay James Harvest,
Gerry Rafferty,
The Wake,
Television Personalities,
Robert Wyatt,
Henry Cow,
The Moody Blues,
Von Mondo,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
JFA,
Minor Threat,
Scan 7,
Bobbi Humphrey,
Reuben Wilson,
The Young Rascals,
Gabor Szabo,
Moby Grape,
Electric Light Orchestra,
Tubeway Army,
Black Moon,
Blancmange,
Bad Manners,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
Neu!,
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines,
Glenn Branca,
Gang Green,
Yusef Lateef,
Drexciya,
Los Fastidios,
The Slits,
Graham Central Station,
Mark Hollis,
Bobby Hutcherson,
Jacques Brel,
Roxy Music,
Bush Tetras,
The Mummies,
Prince Buster,
Tim Buckley,
The Sound,
Marcia Griffiths,
The Smiths,
Crash Course in Science,
Chrome,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
Jawbox,
The Blackbyrds,
John Holt,
Eurythmics,
Wally Richardson,
Roger Hodgson,
Howard Jones,
Flamin' Groovies, Flamin' Groovies, Flamin' Groovies, Flamin' Groovies.
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.