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 Spokane.
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 1963 to 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Tokyo and London.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Bologna 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 sitar sounds with much patience.
I was there when Nile Rodgers 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 Supertramp to the rock kids.
I played it at the Troubador.
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 Agitation Free. All the underground hits.
All Ronan tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Tears for Fears 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 '80s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a clarinet and a snare and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Scott Walker + Sunn O))) record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a sitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Angels of Light,
Danielle Patucci,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
Blossom Toes,
Jimmy McGriff,
Von Mondo,
the Soft Cell,
the Swans,
Boogie Down Productions,
The Sonics,
CMW,
Sun City Girls,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
Avey Tare,
New Age Steppers,
Second Layer,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
The Seeds,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
Kaleidoscope,
Accadde A,
Masters at Work,
Mary Jane Girls,
Unrelated Segments,
Tres Demented,
Tomorrow,
The Gap Band,
Fat Boys,
The Cowsills,
Pharoah Sanders,
Slick Rick,
Johnny Clarke,
The Cramps,
The Misunderstood,
Lindisfarne,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Pussy Galore,
Quantec,
Marshall Jefferson,
Ultra Naté,
Sly & The Family Stone,
Fort Wilson Riot,
F. McDonald,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
Echospace,
Lightning Bolt,
Kenny Larkin,
Radio Birdman,
Half Japanese,
Fifty Foot Hose,
Chris Corsano,
Sound Behaviour,
Max Romeo,
Gang Gang Dance,
Kerrie Biddell,
Fela Kuti,
the Human League,
MDC,
Grandmaster Flash,
Josef K,
The Offenders,
Jerry's Kids,
Sad Lovers and Giants, Sad Lovers and Giants, Sad Lovers and Giants, Sad Lovers and Giants.
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.