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 Bulgaria and from Woodstock.
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 1960 to 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Lagos and Winnipeg.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Milan 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 Josef K practice in a loft in Edinburgh.
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 Procol Harum to the punk 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 Terry Callier. All the underground hits.
All Ossler tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Josef K record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal techno hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a güiro and a 808 and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Heavy D & The Boyz record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your clarinet and bought a theremin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a clarinet.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Sun City Girls,
Matthew Bourne,
D'Angelo,
Gang of Four,
The Raincoats,
Sonic Youth,
Barrington Levy,
Beasts of Bourbon,
Junior Murvin,
Robert Hood,
Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane,
Tears for Fears,
10cc,
Sad Lovers and Giants,
Schoolly D,
Heaven 17,
Smog,
Nico,
The Skatalites,
Oppenheimer Analysis,
The Sound,
Guru Guru,
Soulsonic Force,
The Stooges,
Fat Boys,
The Count Five,
DJ Style,
Soft Cell,
The Remains,
Hasil Adkins,
Curtis Mayfield,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Stockholm Monsters,
The Pretty Things,
Larry & the Blue Notes,
Bluetip,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Gong,
Moby Grape,
Gian Franco Pienzio,
The Cowsills,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
Fear,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
The Gun Club,
Little Man,
Kerri Chandler,
Barbara Tucker,
Half Japanese,
Arab on Radar,
Ten City,
The Tremeloes,
Andrew Hill,
Symarip,
Cabaret Voltaire,
The Fortunes,
Theoretical Girls,
Alison Limerick,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
Scrapy,
Pantytec,
Marine Girls,
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band, The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band, The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band, The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band.
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.