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 Jordan and from Shanghai.
But I was there.
I was there in 1984.
I was there at the first Arcadia show in London.
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 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Philadelphia and Copenhagen.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Seoul 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 1967 at the first Rodriguez practice in a loft in Detroit.
I was working on the guitar sounds with much patience.
I was there when Lou Reed 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 Bobby Sherman to the crunk 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 Gerry Rafferty. All the underground hits.
All cv313 tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Max Romeo 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 '50s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a güiro and a spring reverb and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Be Bop Deluxe record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your güiro and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a güiro.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Shoche,
Sällskapet,
It's A Beautiful Day,
U.S. Maple,
The Real Kids,
Outsiders,
Moebius,
Hasil Adkins,
Siglo XX,
Bobby Sherman,
Adolescents,
Gang Gang Dance,
Crime,
FM Einheit,
ABC,
Loose Ends,
James White and The Blacks,
Ten City,
The Buckinghams,
Kango’s Stein Massive,
The Fire Engines,
Don Cherry,
The Divine Comedy,
Mary Jane Girls,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
Cybotron,
Erykah Badu,
Ash Ra Tempel,
Tommy Roe,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
The Fortunes,
Franke,
PIL,
Television Personalities,
Pole,
Negative Approach,
Bobby Byrd,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
Rod Modell,
The Kinks,
Chris Corsano,
Fear,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Agitation Free,
Nils Olav,
The Standells,
Nirvana,
Television,
The Alarm Clocks,
Soul Sonic Force,
Interpol,
The Men They Couldn't Hang,
Suicide,
The Black Dice,
Jacques Brel,
Crooked Eye,
Theoretical Girls,
Whodini,
Maleditus Sound,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
The Seeds,
Camouflage, Camouflage, Camouflage, Camouflage.
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.