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 Cape Verde and from Stockholm.
But I was there.
I was there in 1967.
I was there at the first Rodriguez show in Detroit.
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 1966 to 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Mumbai and Stockholm.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Tehran 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 1976 at the first Buzzcocks practice in a loft in Bolton.
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 Marine Girls to the crunk kids.
I played it at Cafe Wha.
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 Jesper Dahlbäck. All the underground hits.
All Jerry Gold Smith tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Real Kids record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal crunk 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 an oboe and a güiro 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 mellotron and bought a rhodes.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a mellotron.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Electric Light Orchestra,
The Invisible,
Jandek,
Procol Harum,
Bobby Womack,
The Music Machine,
The Vogues,
Warsaw,
Ken Boothe,
DJ Style,
Kevin Saunderson,
Fatback Band,
Guru Guru,
Sonic Youth,
Delon & Dalcan,
Ornette Coleman,
The Wake,
Gabor Szabo,
Skarface,
Main Source,
Bronski Beat,
The Buckinghams,
MDC,
Barclay James Harvest,
Amon Düül II,
Faust,
Boredoms,
Yazoo,
The Count Five,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
La Düsseldorf,
the Association,
Talk Talk,
Henry Cow,
Icehouse,
Eyeless In Gaza,
Q65,
B.T. Express,
Stetsasonic,
Sly & The Family Stone,
Jesper Dahlback,
Black Flag,
Whodini,
Silicon Teens,
David McCallum,
Radiohead,
Basic Channel,
Roy Ayers,
Lebanon Hanover,
Avey Tare,
The Dead C,
Barry Ungar,
Moby Grape,
cv313,
The Tremeloes,
CMW,
Kurtis Blow,
Lee Hazlewood,
The New Christs,
Junior Murvin, Junior Murvin, Junior Murvin, Junior Murvin.
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.