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 Morocco and from Columbus.
But I was there.
I was there in 1977.
I was there at the first Zapp show in Hamilton.
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 1962 to 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Philadelphia and Tehran.
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 1971 at the first Big Star practice in a loft in Memphis.
I was working on the clarinet sounds with much patience.
I was there when Holger Czukay 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 Germs 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 Chrome. All the underground hits.
All Goldenarms tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Associates record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal disco hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a harpsichord and a sitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Rites of Spring record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a mellotron.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Roger Hodgson,
Section 25,
Sugar Minott,
Cluster,
Scan 7,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
Lucky Dragons,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
Circle Jerks,
Curtis Mayfield,
Whodini,
KRS-One,
Louis and Bebe Barron,
Reagan Youth,
Sun Ra,
The Vogues,
Underground Resistance,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
FM Einheit,
Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme,
Stiv Bators,
LL Cool J,
Lakeside,
Faust,
The Sonics,
Youth Brigade,
Adolescents,
Camouflage,
DJ Style,
EPMD,
Boz Scaggs,
Tom Boy,
The Grass Roots,
Soft Cell,
Teenage Jesus and the Jerks,
Desert Stars,
Aaron Thompson,
Suicide,
Joyce Sims,
The Busters,
The Standells,
Pierre Henry,
Surgeon,
Sonic Youth,
the Slits,
The Cosmic Jokers,
The Doobie Brothers,
Marshall Jefferson,
The Alarm Clocks,
Oneida,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Marc Almond,
New York Dolls,
Jerry's Kids,
Cymande,
These Immortal Souls,
The Real Kids,
Jawbox,
The Shadows of Knight,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
The Royal Family And The Poor, The Royal Family And The Poor, The Royal Family And The Poor, The Royal Family And The Poor.
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.