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 Tonga and from Mumbai.
But I was there.
I was there in 1977.
I was there at the first Zapp show in Hamilton.
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 1968 to 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Sao Paulo and Lyon.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Spokane 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 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 Hoover to the electroclash kids.
I played it at the Hacienda.
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 Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane. All the underground hits.
All Richard Hell and the Voidoids tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Interpol record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grime hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a linndrum and a chamberlin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Tremeloes record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a theremin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a spring reverb.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Doors,
Negative Approach,
Make Up,
Zero Boys,
Graham Central Station,
Bill Near,
Pere Ubu,
Althea and Donna,
The Trojans,
The Zeros,
Lungfish,
Alton Ellis,
Joe Smooth,
F. McDonald,
Godley & Creme,
David Bowie,
Tim Buckley,
Niagra,
Masters at Work,
Max Romeo,
Harmonia,
Deadbeat,
Trumans Water,
Oppenheimer Analysis,
Half Japanese,
Interpol,
Kenny Larkin,
The Martian,
The Wake,
The Real Kids,
The Sisters of Mercy,
Red Lorry Yellow Lorry,
The Angels of Light,
Danielle Patucci,
CMW,
Gang Green,
Barrington Levy,
Wire,
Traffic Nightmare,
The Residents,
Franke,
The Evens,
The Blackbyrds,
Moebius,
The Move,
Art Ensemble Of Chicago,
Cluster,
Intrusion,
Oblivians,
Black Moon,
Thompson Twins,
The Blues Magoos,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
Harpers Bizarre,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
Radiopuhelimet,
Supertramp,
Hot Snakes,
Motorama,
Electric Light Orchestra,
Ornette Coleman, Ornette Coleman, Ornette Coleman, Ornette Coleman.
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.