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 Rwanda and from Houston.
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 1961 to 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Accra and Spokane.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Houston 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 rhodes sounds with much patience.
I was there when Lou Reed 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 Bad Manners to the dance kids.
I played it at CBGB's.
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 Crooked Eye. All the underground hits.
All Lakeside tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Pop Group 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 '80s.
I hear you're buying a rhodes and a mellotron and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Audionom 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?
the Slits,
Boz Scaggs,
Deepchord,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
Todd Terry,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Alison Limerick,
Hoover,
Robert Wyatt,
Minnie Riperton,
Johnny Osbourne,
Desert Stars,
Television Personalities,
Basic Channel,
Sonic Youth,
Wolf Eyes,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Byron Stingily,
The Flesh Eaters,
Yazoo,
Cabaret Voltaire,
Soul Sonic Force,
Gabor Szabo,
Royal Trux,
Gastr Del Sol,
Fluxion,
Fear,
Joyce Sims,
Model 500,
The Selecter,
Gerry Rafferty,
Laurel Aitken,
Fugazi,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
DNA,
Nas,
Depeche Mode,
Sparks,
Slick Rick,
Freddie Wadling,
Quando Quango,
Lakeside,
Sugar Minott,
UT,
The Searchers,
Steve Hackett,
Ken Boothe,
Kenny Larkin,
Skriet,
Bush Tetras,
Sonny Sharrock,
Groovy Waters,
Stiv Bators,
David McCallum,
Wasted Youth,
Cameo,
Ice-T,
Kango’s Stein Massive,
Joe Finger,
Drexciya,
China Crisis,
The Alarm Clocks,
Livin' Joy,
Dave Gahan,
The Invisible, The Invisible, The Invisible, The Invisible.
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.