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 Nicaragua and from Bologna.
But I was there.
I was there in 1977.
I was there at the first Human League show in Sheffield.
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 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Mumbai and Hong Kong.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Manchester 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 1975 at the first Ubu practice in a loft in Cleveland.
I was working on the spring reverb 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 Lower 48 to the rock 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 Lindisfarne. All the underground hits.
All Maurizio tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Glenn Branca 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 '70s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a marimba and a theremin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Echo & the Bunnymen record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought a theremin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a snare.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Schoolly D,
MC5,
Ohio Players,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Alton Ellis,
Cheater Slicks,
Rapeman,
Judy Mowatt,
Pet Shop Boys,
Patti Smith,
Circle Jerks,
The Pop Group,
Public Enemy,
the Sonics,
Jesper Dahlback,
Prince Buster,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Pole,
The Martian,
The Cure,
The Monks,
Kango’s Stein Massive,
Avey Tare's Slasher Flicks,
Roy Ayers,
Ossler,
Sunsets and Hearts,
The Trojans,
Wolf Eyes,
Colin Newman,
The Grass Roots,
World's Most,
Fatback Band,
Pussy Galore,
Public Image Ltd.,
The Toasters,
EPMD,
Scott Walker,
Moby Grape,
JFA,
Sun City Girls,
John Cale,
Bootsy's Rubber Band,
Arcadia,
The Golliwogs,
Saccharine Trust,
Talk Talk,
Robert Görl,
Harpers Bizarre,
Reagan Youth,
The Fall,
AZ,
Deepchord,
Minny Pops,
Johnny Osbourne,
DJ Sneak,
Graham Central Station,
Thompson Twins,
Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines,
Scan 7,
Strawberry Alarm Clock,
New Age Steppers,
The New Christs, The New Christs, The New Christs, The New Christs.
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.