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 Djibouti and from Stockholm.
But I was there.
I was there in 1971.
I was there at the first Big Star show in Memphis.
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 1969 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Columbus and Paris.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Bologna 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 organ 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 Peter & Gordon to the grime kids.
I played it at the Crocodile.
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 Stooges. All the underground hits.
All Half Japanese tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Fatback Band record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal techno 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 an organ and a marimba and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Man Eating Sloth record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a snare.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Cameo,
The Seeds,
Ultimate Spinach,
Agitation Free,
The Velvet Underground,
Lyres,
Agent Orange,
The Selecter,
The Busters,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
Public Image Ltd.,
The Fuzztones,
Radiopuhelimet,
Sandy B,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Country Joe & The Fish,
Bobby Byrd,
Todd Rundgren,
Scratch Acid,
Ralphi Rosario,
Marshall Jefferson,
E-Dancer,
Neil Young,
Throbbing Gristle,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Iggy Pop,
Public Enemy,
L. Decosne,
Youth Brigade,
The Wake,
Wings,
48th St. Collective,
Essential Logic,
Jawbox,
Sarah Menescal,
Danielle Patucci,
The Standells,
The Vogues,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
X-102,
Bang On A Can,
The Gun Club,
John Foxx,
Circle Jerks,
Peter & Gordon,
John Coltrane,
Yazoo,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
Curtis Mayfield,
Joe Smooth,
Jerry's Kids,
Aloha Tigers,
Urselle,
Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme,
Delon & Dalcan,
kango's stein massive,
Severed Heads,
Motorama,
Tommy Roe,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic, Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic, Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic, Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic.
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.