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 Stockholm.
But I was there.
I was there in 1977.
I was there at the first Mistral show in Amsterdam.
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 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Bremen and Philadelphia.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Delhi 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 guitar sounds with much patience.
I was there when Tom Verlaine 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 The Human League to the rap kids.
I played it at the 40 Watt.
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 10cc. All the underground hits.
All Ronan tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Joe Finger record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grime 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 sitar and a marimba and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Radiohead record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your harpsichord and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a harpsichord.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Jacob Miller,
The Techniques,
Pantytec,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
Skarface,
The Count Five,
The Names,
Electric Light Orchestra,
Soft Machine,
Pulsallama,
Public Image Ltd.,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
Leonard Cohen,
Schoolly D,
Hasil Adkins,
Kool Moe Dee,
James Chance & The Contortions,
Minor Threat,
Inner City,
Maurizio,
The Jesus and Mary Chain,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
the Association,
Gabor Szabo,
Crispy Ambulance,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
Todd Terry,
The Kinks,
Gichy Dan,
Audionom,
T.S.O.L.,
Juan Atkins,
Minnie Riperton,
Aural Exciters,
Das Ding,
Talk Talk,
Ponytail,
Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson,
Boredoms,
Rosa Yemen,
The Young Rascals,
The Mojo Men,
Masters at Work,
Reagan Youth,
Fugazi,
ABBA,
Kaleidoscope,
LL Cool J,
The Real Kids,
Traffic Nightmare,
The Cowsills,
Colin Newman,
Roger Hodgson,
Pole,
Sandy B,
Judy Mowatt,
R.M.O.,
Subhumans,
KRS-One,
Tommy Roe,
Chris Corsano,
Gregory Isaacs,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
E-Dancer, E-Dancer, E-Dancer, E-Dancer.
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.