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 Mauritania and from Manila.
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 1966 to 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Spokane and Spokane.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Madrid 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 1979 at the first Second Layer practice in a loft in South London.
I was working on the harpsichord 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 Sonny Sharrock to the funk 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 Bizarre Inc.. All the underground hits.
All JFA tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Erykah Badu record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal punk 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 a mellotron and a 808 and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Lucky Dragons record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a rhodes.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes 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?
Leonard Cohen,
David Bowie,
The Last Poets,
Boogie Down Productions,
Sonny Sharrock,
Grauzone,
Icehouse,
Mars,
Bush Tetras,
Cabaret Voltaire,
The Dave Clark Five,
John Holt,
Teenage Jesus and the Jerks,
Clear Light,
Angry Samoans,
Johnny Osbourne,
The Detroit Cobras,
Kenny Larkin,
The Moleskins,
Bluetip,
kango's stein massive,
Eric Dolphy,
The Mummies,
The Offenders,
The Move,
The Cure,
Rhythm & Sound,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
Althea and Donna,
Joy Division,
Khruangbin,
Echo & the Bunnymen,
Amon Düül II,
Tomorrow,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Dave Gahan,
Soft Machine,
the Sonics,
Kango’s Stein Massive,
Yellowson,
CMW,
Jerry Gold Smith,
The Divine Comedy,
The Music Machine,
New York Dolls,
Excepter,
Arab on Radar,
David McCallum,
The Mojo Men,
Juan Atkins,
Audionom,
Flipper,
Spandau Ballet,
Kerri Chandler,
Au Pairs,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
Parry Music,
Red Lorry Yellow Lorry,
Groovy Waters,
U.S. Maple,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Model 500,
Massinfluence,
Joe Smooth, Joe Smooth, Joe Smooth, Joe Smooth.
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.