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 Trinidad & Tobago 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 1963 to 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Copenhagen and Taipei.
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 1979 at the first Second Layer practice in a loft in South London.
I was working on the arpeggiator sounds with much patience.
I was there when Nile Rodgers 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 Gabor Szabo to the punk kids.
I played it at the Crocodile.
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 T.S.O.L.. All the underground hits.
All Wire tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Albert Ayler record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grunge hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying an oboe and a spring reverb and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Peter and Kerry record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought a spring reverb.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a snare.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Schoolly D,
Ken Boothe,
The Pretty Things,
Bang On A Can,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
Anthony Braxton,
Fear,
Can,
Q and Not U,
The Index,
Shuggie Otis,
The Stooges,
Iggy Pop,
Newcleus,
The Fall,
Supertramp,
The Neon Judgement,
Audionom,
Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme,
Grey Daturas,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
X-102,
Tubeway Army,
Mission of Burma,
The Dead C,
The Moleskins,
Junior Murvin,
Jacob Miller,
Johnny Clarke,
Skarface,
Mr. Review,
Ponytail,
Joe Finger,
The Monochrome Set,
Mo-Dettes,
PIL,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
The Martian,
Ultimate Spinach,
Archie Shepp,
Public Image Ltd.,
The Real Kids,
Q65,
Heaven 17,
Rufus Thomas,
Mandrill,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
Quadrant,
the Germs,
Cymande,
A Certain Ratio,
Terrestrial Tones,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
Freddie Wadling,
Colin Newman,
Rekid,
Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines,
Pulsallama,
Moss Icon,
Funkadelic,
The Tremeloes, The Tremeloes, The Tremeloes, The Tremeloes.
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.