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 Yemen and from Shanghai.
But I was there.
I was there in 1976.
I was there at the first Buzzcocks show in Bolton.
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 1966 to 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Shanghai and Glasgow.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Milan 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 1967 at the first Rodriguez practice in a loft in Detroit.
I was working on the theremin sounds with much patience.
I was there when Captain Beefheart 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 Hasil Adkins to the jazz kids.
I played it at the Astoria.
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 Nation of Ulysses. All the underground hits.
All Delta 5 tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Bobby Hutcherson record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grunge hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a guitar and an organ and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Sandy B record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your güiro and bought a theremin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a güiro.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Alarm Clocks,
Stereo Dub,
The Fall,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Jacques Brel,
The Divine Comedy,
Agitation Free,
Mantronix,
Laurel Aitken,
Silicon Teens,
Wire,
DJ Sneak,
Letta Mbulu,
Essential Logic,
Eurythmics,
Janne Schatter,
Supertramp,
Young Marble Giants,
the Human League,
Pagans,
Piero Umiliani,
KRS-One,
Glenn Branca,
Al Stewart,
Amazonics,
Royal Trux,
Cymande,
Theoretical Girls,
The Star Department,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
Idris Muhammad,
Von Mondo,
The Modern Lovers,
Scott Walker,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
Eric Dolphy,
Country Joe & The Fish,
Nas,
Kevin Saunderson,
In Retrospect,
Boredoms,
Larry & the Blue Notes,
Peter and Kerry,
Electric Prunes,
Fela Kuti,
Boz Scaggs,
8 Eyed Spy,
Mary Jane Girls,
One Last Wish,
Hasil Adkins,
The Standells,
Connie Case,
The American Breed,
Matthew Bourne,
Kerri Chandler,
Eric Copeland,
Avey Tare,
Man Parrish,
Bobby Sherman,
Curtis Mayfield,
Roxette,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
James White and The Blacks, James White and The Blacks, James White and The Blacks, James White and The Blacks.
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.