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 Australia and from Stockholm.
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 1964 to 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Hong Kong and Columbus.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Bremen 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 Feelies practice in a loft in Haledon.
I was working on the snare 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 Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra to the rock kids.
I played it at the Hacienda.
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 Pere Ubu. All the underground hits.
All N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Radio Birdman 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 '90s.
I hear you're buying a guitar and a harpsichord and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Eric Copeland record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a spring reverb.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Motorama,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Bobby Hutcherson,
10cc,
Underground Resistance,
Suburban Knight,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
Gong,
Oneida,
Alphaville,
Derrick May,
Absolute Body Control,
Radiohead,
Niagra,
Liaisons Dangereuses,
Camouflage,
a-ha,
DJ Sneak,
Grandmaster Flash,
Lower 48,
Roy Ayers,
New Age Steppers,
Traffic Nightmare,
48th St. Collective,
Harry Pussy,
The Gap Band,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Ohio Players,
Robert Wyatt,
Radiopuhelimet,
The Birthday Party,
The Raincoats,
Cabaret Voltaire,
Aloha Tigers,
Beasts of Bourbon,
Shoche,
OOIOO,
Saccharine Trust,
Youth Brigade,
Letta Mbulu,
Brick,
Adolescents,
The Young Rascals,
The Fortunes,
E-Dancer,
The Sisters of Mercy,
The Mojo Men,
One Last Wish,
Swell Maps,
Sly & The Family Stone,
Moebius,
Bang on a Can All-Stars,
The Victims,
David Bowie,
The Cure,
The Real Kids,
The Evens,
Danielle Patucci,
The Litter,
Eden Ahbez,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan, Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan, Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan, Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan.
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.