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 Qatar and from Milan.
But I was there.
I was there in 1971.
I was there at the first Selda show in Istanbul.
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 1967 to 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Bologna and Stockholm.
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 1976 at the first Buzzcocks practice in a loft in Bolton.
I was working on the snare 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 Al Stewart to the rock 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 Grey Daturas. All the underground hits.
All The Angels of Light tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Drive Like Jehu record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal crunk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a spring reverb and a theremin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Bootsy's Rubber Band record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a spring reverb.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought an oboe.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Silicon Teens,
Circle Jerks,
Avey Tare,
Gang of Four,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Television Personalities,
The Fuzztones,
Bobby Sherman,
Basic Channel,
Alton Ellis,
Buzzcocks,
Alphaville,
Traffic Nightmare,
Electric Prunes,
Public Image Ltd.,
Robert Görl,
Dennis Brown,
Kerri Chandler,
These Immortal Souls,
Matthew Halsall,
The Associates,
Soft Machine,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Minny Pops,
Erykah Badu,
Q and Not U,
Porter Ricks,
Terrestrial Tones,
ABBA,
Reuben Wilson,
The Mojo Men,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
Ultravox,
Jerry Gold Smith,
The Shadows of Knight,
Roxette,
Cecil Taylor,
Dawn Penn,
Lungfish,
Aaron Thompson,
Strawberry Alarm Clock,
Fifty Foot Hose,
T. Rex,
Al Stewart,
June of 44,
A Flock of Seagulls,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
Pagans,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
The Selecter,
Pussy Galore,
Can,
Icehouse,
Eli Mardock,
Soulsonic Force,
The Cramps,
Mr. Review,
Royal Trux,
Japan,
Kurtis Blow,
Lebanon Hanover,
The Standells, The Standells, The Standells, The Standells.
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.