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 Portugal and from Manchester.
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 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Jakarta and Sao Paulo.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Madrid 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 Zapp practice in a loft in Hamilton.
I was working on the guitar sounds with much patience.
I was there when Donald Fagen 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 Sex Pistols to the funk kids.
I played it at the 40 Watt.
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 Manfred Mann's Earth Band. All the underground hits.
All One Last Wish tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Bobby Byrd record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal dance 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 a mellotron and a synthesizer and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Gong record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a mellotron.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Rotary Connection,
Minor Threat,
Reuben Wilson,
Agitation Free,
Cabaret Voltaire,
Das Ding,
Dave Gahan,
Ronan,
Joensuu 1685,
Derrick Morgan,
Quantec,
Crime,
Banda Bassotti,
Mary Jane Girls,
R.M.O.,
Stetsasonic,
Sex Pistols,
Marcia Griffiths,
Ralphi Rosario,
The Five Americans,
Duran Duran,
Delon & Dalcan,
Kerrie Biddell,
Silicon Teens,
Oppenheimer Analysis,
Camberwell Now,
Index,
Cecil Taylor,
Jawbox,
The Peanut Butter Conspiracy,
Japan,
Black Moon,
Interpol,
Joe Smooth,
Deepchord,
A Flock of Seagulls,
Newcleus,
Michelle Simonal,
Bootsy's Rubber Band,
Vainqueur,
The Human League,
Kayak,
The Motions,
Ossler,
The Sound,
Eli Mardock,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
Los Fastidios,
Ultimate Spinach,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
Donny Hathaway,
Connie Case,
Sarah Menescal,
The Doobie Brothers,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
Bobby Hutcherson,
Kas Product,
Fifty Foot Hose,
The Standells,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
London Community Gospel Choir, London Community Gospel Choir, London Community Gospel Choir, London Community Gospel Choir.
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.