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 Tunisia and from Milan.
But I was there.
I was there in 1977.
I was there at the first Mistral show in Amsterdam.
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 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Madrid and Beijing.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Glasgow 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 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 Kayak 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 Ultramagnetic MC's. All the underground hits.
All MC5 tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Animal Collective record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal disco hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying an organ and a güiro and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Avey Tare's Slasher Flicks record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought a mellotron.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a snare.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Theoretical Girls,
Boogie Down Productions,
It's A Beautiful Day,
Gang Starr,
Icehouse,
The Smiths,
The Busters,
Louis and Bebe Barron,
The Birthday Party,
The Real Kids,
Pantaleimon,
kango's stein massive,
Buzzcocks,
Zapp,
Grauzone,
Bluetip,
Danielle Patucci,
The Five Americans,
Television,
The Invisible,
Jeff Lynne,
Von Mondo,
Roy Ayers Ubiquity,
Infiniti,
Electric Light Orchestra,
Lalo Schifrin,
Sister Nancy,
Boz Scaggs,
Crispian St. Peters,
The Saints,
Pet Shop Boys,
The New Christs,
The Move,
Marshall Jefferson,
Rosa Yemen,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
Unwound,
Eden Ahbez,
James White and The Blacks,
Quadrant,
Derrick May,
Animal Collective,
Isaac Hayes,
Faust,
David Axelrod,
PIL,
Surgeon,
Soul II Soul,
The Slits,
Simply Red,
The Names,
Jerry's Kids,
The Offenders,
Jerry Gold Smith,
In Retrospect,
Erykah Badu,
Aaron Thompson,
Sad Lovers and Giants,
Los Fastidios,
Rites of Spring,
the Swans,
Absolute Body Control, Absolute Body Control, Absolute Body Control, Absolute Body Control.
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.