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 Paraguay and from Paris.
But I was there.
I was there in 1980.
I was there at the first Cybotron show in Detroit.
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 1960 to 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Woodstock and Calgary.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Jakarta 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 1976 at the first Buzzcocks practice in a loft in Bolton.
I was working on the guitar sounds with much patience.
I was there when Captain Beefheart 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 Fuzztones to the crunk kids.
I played it at Cafe Wha.
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 the Association. All the underground hits.
All Swell Maps tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grunge hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a marimba and a synthesizer and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Fire Engines record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a spring reverb.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
MC5,
Basic Channel,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
Eli Mardock,
Marshall Jefferson,
The Busters,
New Order,
Essential Logic,
Isaac Hayes,
Black Pus,
The Cowsills,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Soft Machine,
X-102,
Schoolly D,
Albert Ayler,
Anakelly,
Eddi Front,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Soul Sonic Force,
Spoonie Gee,
Fad Gadget,
Rufus Thomas,
Chris Corsano,
Y Pants,
Oneida,
Maleditus Sound,
Carl Craig,
Charles Mingus,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
The Move,
Bad Manners,
Curtis Mayfield,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
Darondo,
Bronski Beat,
Arcadia,
The Associates,
Animal Collective,
The Moleskins,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
Morten Harket,
James Chance & The Contortions,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Gregory Isaacs,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
The Evens,
Roxy Music,
Ash Ra Tempel,
Drive Like Jehu,
Beasts of Bourbon,
Symarip,
Barry Ungar,
Yellowson,
Nation of Ulysses,
Wings,
Teenage Jesus and the Jerks,
Graham Central Station,
Scrapy,
Severed Heads,
Wire, Wire, Wire, Wire.
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.