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 Macedonia and from Paris.
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 1967 to 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Glasgow and Milan.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Lyon 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 1971 at the first Big Star practice in a loft in Memphis.
I was working on the spring reverb sounds with much patience.
I was there when David Bowie 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 ABC to the grime kids.
I played it at CBGB's.
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 Boogie Down Productions. All the underground hits.
All Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Liaisons Dangereuses record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal electroclash hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a rhodes and an oboe and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Knickerbockers record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a theremin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a chamberlin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Blossom Toes,
Laurel Aitken,
Slick Rick,
Sarah Menescal,
10cc,
Average White Band,
Moss Icon,
The Blues Magoos,
Reagan Youth,
Ralphi Rosario,
T.S.O.L.,
Duran Duran,
Alton Ellis,
Stiv Bators,
Spoonie Gee,
Gastr Del Sol,
Joe Finger,
Section 25,
Adolescents,
Albert Ayler,
Man Parrish,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
Rod Modell,
Gang of Four,
Ice-T,
Talk Talk,
The Golliwogs,
Barbara Tucker,
The Five Americans,
Bobby Hutcherson,
Hardrive,
The Human League,
Sex Pistols,
Scientists,
Flamin' Groovies,
Junior Murvin,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
Niagra,
D'Angelo,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
U.S. Maple,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
Thee Headcoats,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
The Monks,
Camouflage,
Mark Hollis,
Traffic Nightmare,
Aloha Tigers,
Stockholm Monsters,
Kayak,
L. Decosne,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
The Evens,
Dorothy Ashby,
Babytalk,
Nils Olav,
DJ Sneak,
Dennis Brown,
Big Daddy Kane,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron, Terror Squad Feat. Camron, Terror Squad Feat. Camron, Terror Squad Feat. Camron.
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.