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 Bosnia Herzegovina and from Tehran.
But I was there.
I was there in 1976.
I was there at the first Buzzcocks show in Bolton.
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 1965 to 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Accra and New York.
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 linndrum 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 Selector Dub Narcotic to the grunge 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 Saccharine Trust. All the underground hits.
All China Crisis tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Eurythmics record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rock hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a spring reverb and an oboe and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Zeros record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your clarinet and bought a linndrum.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a clarinet.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Gichy Dan,
Tres Demented,
This Heat,
KRS-One,
In Retrospect,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
The Searchers,
Pole,
John Coltrane,
Derrick Morgan,
Harpers Bizarre,
Pantaleimon,
Lou Reed,
EPMD,
Scan 7,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
One Last Wish,
Japan,
Soulsonic Force,
Zapp,
Livin' Joy,
Trumans Water,
Quantec,
Andrew Hill,
Pulsallama,
Big Daddy Kane,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
Bang on a Can All-Stars,
Newcleus,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
David Axelrod,
The Leaves,
Dorothy Ashby,
Roy Ayers Ubiquity,
Joe Smooth,
Cymande,
Icehouse,
Dave Gahan,
LL Cool J,
Public Image Ltd.,
Archie Shepp,
Bizarre Inc.,
Negative Approach,
Be Bop Deluxe,
Silicon Teens,
Swell Maps,
Ossler,
Amon Düül II,
The Knickerbockers,
Spoonie Gee,
Richard Hell and the Voidoids,
the Slits,
The Moleskins,
Howard Jones,
Adolescents,
Bronski Beat,
China Crisis,
Deakin,
Connie Case,
Erykah Badu,
Dual Sessions, Dual Sessions, Dual Sessions, Dual Sessions.
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.