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 Uruguay and from Sao Paulo.
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 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Beijing and Beijing.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Taipei 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 Donald Fagen 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 Man Eating Sloth to the disco kids.
I played it at the Spitz.
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 Soft Cell. All the underground hits.
All Eddi Front tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every ABC record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rap hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying an arpeggiator and a güiro and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Yazoo record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your marimba and bought a mellotron.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a marimba.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Ralphi Rosario,
Wings,
Glenn Branca,
Sunsets and Hearts,
Gastr Del Sol,
Marvin Gaye,
The Vogues,
Public Enemy,
Cluster,
Sam Rivers,
Simply Red,
Michelle Simonal,
Flash Fearless,
The Sisters of Mercy,
Dave Gahan,
The Golliwogs,
Amazonics,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
Zero Boys,
Niagra,
Sad Lovers and Giants,
Be Bop Deluxe,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
The Modern Lovers,
Lalo Schifrin,
Freddie Wadling,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
Dual Sessions,
Shoche,
Derrick Morgan,
James White and The Blacks,
John Cale,
Grandmaster Flash,
The Mojo Men,
Tom Boy,
Avey Tare,
Lebanon Hanover,
Roger Hodgson,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Buzzcocks,
Nils Olav,
Peter & Gordon,
The Walker Brothers,
PIL,
Moby Grape,
Faraquet,
F. McDonald,
Monks,
Eden Ahbez,
Rekid,
Mission of Burma,
Siglo XX,
Barclay James Harvest,
Don Cherry,
Thompson Twins,
Mantronix,
Todd Terry,
Bill Near,
Jawbox,
Urselle,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
Joyce Sims,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell, N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell, N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell, N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell.
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.