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 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 1967 to 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Delhi and Manila.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Winnipeg 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 1977 at the first Human League practice in a loft in Sheffield.
I was working on the rhodes sounds with much patience.
I was there when Tom Verlaine 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 Fifty Foot Hose to the electroclash 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 La Düsseldorf. All the underground hits.
All Joensuu 1685 tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Young Marble Giants 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 '60s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a synthesizer and a marimba and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Amon Düül record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a linndrum.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a chamberlin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Robert Görl,
Glambeats Corp.,
The Young Rascals,
Television,
the Human League,
Lyres,
Jerry's Kids,
Panda Bear,
Pagans,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
Scott Walker,
Slave,
T.S.O.L.,
Ultra Naté,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Brand Nubian,
James White and The Blacks,
The Barracudas,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
Gang of Four,
UT,
Jesper Dahlback,
Index,
Agent Orange,
Liliput,
Half Japanese,
Magazine,
48th St. Collective,
Youth Brigade,
Country Joe & The Fish,
The Fugs,
Eric Copeland,
Alison Limerick,
Freddie Wadling,
The Offenders,
Don Cherry,
Section 25,
Scientists,
Marvin Gaye,
Pierre Henry,
Richard Hell and the Voidoids,
Vladislav Delay,
Soulsonic Force,
Crooked Eye,
Rosa Yemen,
Beasts of Bourbon,
Charles Mingus,
Sexual Harrassment,
Television Personalities,
Nirvana,
Bob Dylan,
Hasil Adkins,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
A Flock of Seagulls,
These Immortal Souls,
Shuggie Otis,
The Searchers,
Public Image Ltd.,
Bill Wells,
The Names,
Jimmy McGriff,
Siouxsie and the Banshees, Siouxsie and the Banshees, Siouxsie and the Banshees, Siouxsie and the Banshees.
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.