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 Shanghai.
But I was there.
I was there in 1984.
I was there at the first Arcadia show in London.
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 1962 to 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Edmonton and Beijing.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Manchester 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 harpsichord 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 Human League to the dance kids.
I played it at the 40 Watt.
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 Albert Ayler. All the underground hits.
All Sugar Minott tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic 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 '60s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a mellotron and an organ and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Audionom record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your organ and bought a güiro.
I hear that you and your band have sold your güiro and bought an organ.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Magazine,
Roy Ayers,
Al Stewart,
Second Layer,
Sonic Youth,
The Moody Blues,
Lou Christie,
Gerry Rafferty,
Vainqueur,
Erykah Badu,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
Kayak,
Joensuu 1685,
Bill Wells,
Eric B and Rakim,
Subhumans,
DJ Style,
Eve St. Jones,
Kings Of Tomorrow,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
New Age Steppers,
The Count Five,
Quantec,
Leonard Cohen,
The Walker Brothers,
Schoolly D,
Sparks,
Pylon,
The Associates,
China Crisis,
Black Bananas,
Alice Coltrane,
Tommy Roe,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
Section 25,
The Raincoats,
Hot Snakes,
ABC,
Thinking Fellers Union Local 282,
Deadbeat,
Deepchord,
Joey Negro,
Sexual Harrassment,
Delon & Dalcan,
Brothers Johnson,
Yazoo,
Eden Ahbez,
Magma,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
Janne Schatter,
Big Daddy Kane,
KRS-One,
Flipper,
Johnny Osbourne,
Sister Nancy,
Rufus Thomas,
Kenny Larkin,
Saccharine Trust,
Eli Mardock,
Thompson Twins,
The Searchers,
Liliput,
Piero Umiliani, Piero Umiliani, Piero Umiliani, Piero Umiliani.
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.