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 Liechtenstein 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 1969 to 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Paris and Edmonton.
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 1976 at the first Buzzcocks practice in a loft in Bolton.
I was working on the guitar sounds with much patience.
I was there when Robert Palmer 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 Oneida to the disco 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 Todd Rundgren. All the underground hits.
All Althea and Donna tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Ralphi Rosario record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rap hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a snare and a guitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Kerri Chandler record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Metal Thangz,
Lyres,
Barclay James Harvest,
Echospace,
Dave Gahan,
Sound Behaviour,
The Detroit Cobras,
Ludus,
Sparks,
KRS-One,
Bobby Hutcherson,
Joyce Sims,
Cluster,
Chris & Cosey,
The Motions,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
Altered Images,
Terrestrial Tones,
Cameo,
AZ,
Shoche,
Derrick Morgan,
The Slackers,
Zapp,
Echo & the Bunnymen,
Country Joe & The Fish,
Liliput,
Sly & The Family Stone,
Andrew Hill,
Banda Bassotti,
Mission of Burma,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
Khruangbin,
the Association,
Faust,
Camberwell Now,
The Fugs,
MC5,
The Cure,
Bill Near,
Eric Dolphy,
Absolute Body Control,
Godley & Creme,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
ABC,
The Doors,
Kings Of Tomorrow,
Stereo Dub,
Bootsy's Rubber Band,
Aswad,
Brass Construction,
Fela Kuti,
Adolescents,
The Seeds,
Donald Byrd,
Crash Course in Science,
Quantec,
Funkadelic,
Spandau Ballet,
B.T. Express,
Gregory Isaacs,
Johnny Osbourne,
Soul II Soul, Soul II Soul, Soul II Soul, Soul II Soul.
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.