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 Palau and from Glasgow.
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 1965 to 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Jakarta and Houston.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Mumbai 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 1977 at the first Human League practice in a loft in Sheffield.
I was working on the rhodes 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 Royal Trux to the funk 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 Sonic Youth. All the underground hits.
All One Last Wish tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Cowsills record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal dance hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a theremin and a 808 and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Danielle Patucci record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a theremin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a linndrum.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Steve Hackett,
Von Mondo,
Roxy Music,
Peter and Kerry,
U.S. Maple,
Drexciya,
David Axelrod,
Cluster,
Teenage Jesus and the Jerks,
Delta 5,
Roy Ayers Ubiquity,
Skaos,
Sexual Harrassment,
F. McDonald,
AZ,
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band,
Spandau Ballet,
B.T. Express,
Magazine,
The Pop Group,
Echo & the Bunnymen,
The Human League,
Unwound,
Glenn Branca,
Tom Boy,
The Beau Brummels,
Clear Light,
The Durutti Column,
Mr. Review,
Lyres,
The Move,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Michelle Simonal,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
Country Teasers,
The Music Machine,
The Raincoats,
Amon Düül,
Larry & the Blue Notes,
Interpol,
London Community Gospel Choir,
The Gladiators,
Arcadia,
FM Einheit,
Ponytail,
Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx,
Fugazi,
Sarah Menescal,
Negative Approach,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
Organ,
Be Bop Deluxe,
the Fania All-Stars,
Alton Ellis,
Schoolly D,
Barbara Tucker,
a-ha,
Wally Richardson, Wally Richardson, Wally Richardson, Wally Richardson.
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.