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 Montenegro and from Edmonton.
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 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Columbus and Salvador.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Manila 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 1979 at the first Second Layer practice in a loft in South London.
I was working on the chamberlin sounds with much patience.
I was there when Michael McDonald 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 Echospace to the crunk 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 Faust. All the underground hits.
All Susan Cadogan tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Fugs record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rock hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a güiro and a linndrum and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Wake record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a güiro.
I hear that you and your band have sold your güiro and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
David McCallum,
Jawbox,
Soul Sonic Force,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
Panda Bear,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
The Young Rascals,
Man Eating Sloth,
China Crisis,
The Knickerbockers,
Susan Cadogan,
Marc Romboy vs. Booka Shade,
Cluster,
The Offenders,
Barry Ungar,
Youth Brigade,
Pantytec,
Ohio Players,
Cybotron,
Slick Rick,
Agent Orange,
The Divine Comedy,
The Gun Club,
Dual Sessions,
Gang of Four,
The Buckinghams,
Das Ding,
Lyres,
The Standells,
Teenage Jesus and the Jerks,
Radio Birdman,
Joyce Sims,
Dennis Brown,
The Happenings,
Sugar Minott,
Popol Vuh,
Organ,
Babytalk,
Kas Product,
Tim Buckley,
Lou Christie,
The Gories,
Larry & the Blue Notes,
Soulsonic Force,
Letta Mbulu,
The Fugs,
Black Pus,
Gregory Isaacs,
Kerrie Biddell,
David Axelrod,
Groovy Waters,
The Pretty Things,
Nik Kershaw,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Eli Mardock,
Magma,
Spoonie Gee,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
Godley & Creme,
Jeff Lynne,
Brand Nubian,
Aswad,
Little Man,
The Modern Lovers,
Second Layer, Second Layer, Second Layer, Second Layer.
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.