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 Peru 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 1961 to 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Glasgow and Glasgow.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Lille 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 1979 at the first Josef K practice in a loft in Edinburgh.
I was working on the spring reverb sounds with much patience.
I was there when Donald Fagen 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 AZ to the rock 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 Bob Dylan. All the underground hits.
All Girls At Our Best! tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every R.M.O. record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal jazz 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 theremin and a güiro and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Pylon record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a chamberlin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a sitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Gang Starr,
The Gun Club,
Unwound,
The Fall,
David Bowie,
Nas,
Art Ensemble Of Chicago,
Erasure,
KRS-One,
Rod Modell,
The Victims,
Radiopuhelimet,
Lower 48,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Duran Duran,
MC5,
Cybotron,
Deepchord,
The Evens,
Charles Mingus,
Idris Muhammad,
Au Pairs,
John Lydon,
In Retrospect,
Freddie Wadling,
Section 25,
Pantaleimon,
The Red Krayola,
The Buckinghams,
Jacob Miller,
Strawberry Alarm Clock,
Silicon Teens,
Kaleidoscope,
Aaron Thompson,
The Smiths,
Schoolly D,
Franke,
The Moleskins,
Masters at Work,
Fluxion,
Godley & Creme,
Andrew Hill,
Barry Ungar,
Unrelated Segments,
Public Image Ltd.,
Johnny Clarke,
U.S. Maple,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
Mad Mike,
Fort Wilson Riot,
New Age Steppers,
Half Japanese,
Liliput,
Agent Orange,
Minor Threat,
Rotary Connection,
Crime,
Quantec,
Mo-Dettes,
Oppenheimer Analysis,
Drexciya,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
Blancmange, Blancmange, Blancmange, Blancmange.
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.