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 Morocco and from Bologna.
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 1967 to 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in London and Hong Kong.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Mexico City 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 synthesizer 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 Minor Threat to the dance 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 The Birthday Party. All the underground hits.
All Terrestrial Tones tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rap hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a synthesizer and a sitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Rahsaan Roland Kirk record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your organ and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought an organ.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Can,
Bobby Womack,
MDC,
Basic Channel,
Letta Mbulu,
Qualms,
Underground Resistance,
James Chance & The Contortions,
Smog,
The Vogues,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
X-Ray Spex,
Kevin Saunderson,
the Slits,
Boz Scaggs,
Stockholm Monsters,
Peter & Gordon,
John Coltrane,
Sun City Girls,
Motorama,
Roxy Music,
Bush Tetras,
Yazoo,
Ralphi Rosario,
Bootsy Collins,
Pylon,
PIL,
OOIOO,
The Martian,
Q and Not U,
Rufus Thomas,
10cc,
Joy Division,
Funky Four + One,
Gregory Isaacs,
Soulsonic Force,
The Cosmic Jokers,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
The Monks,
Sun Ra,
The Gap Band,
A Certain Ratio,
Fugazi,
Scion,
Animal Collective,
Theoretical Girls,
The Slits,
Arcadia,
Rosa Yemen,
Ornette Coleman,
Avey Tare,
Rod Modell,
Bobby Sherman,
Roxette,
Trumans Water,
Robert Görl,
Camouflage,
Danielle Patucci,
Mandrill,
Erykah Badu,
Inner City,
Drexciya,
Lakeside,
The Moody Blues,
the Swans, the Swans, the Swans, the Swans.
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.