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 Marshall Islands and from Salvador.
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 1968 to 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Milan and Johannesburg.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Milan 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 sitar sounds with much patience.
I was there when Robert Palmer 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 Wire to the punk kids.
I played it at Trash.
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 Marine Girls. All the underground hits.
All The Techniques tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Archie Shepp record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal jazz 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 snare and a theremin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Sun City Girls record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a harpsichord.
I hear that you and your band have sold your harpsichord and bought a sitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
Stereo Dub,
Glenn Branca,
Alison Limerick,
Country Teasers,
Quando Quango,
Sonic Youth,
The Doobie Brothers,
kango's stein massive,
Pere Ubu,
Simply Red,
Suicide,
The Monochrome Set,
Metal Thangz,
Michelle Simonal,
The Young Rascals,
Echospace,
Connie Case,
Kurtis Blow,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
Monks,
Average White Band,
World's Most,
Massinfluence,
The Pop Group,
Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane,
Outsiders,
Banda Bassotti,
La Düsseldorf,
The Remains,
Pylon,
The Black Dice,
Funky Four + One,
Grey Daturas,
The Slackers,
Procol Harum,
The Smiths,
Ice-T,
The Dave Clark Five,
Beasts of Bourbon,
Donny Hathaway,
Tom Boy,
MC5,
Moby Grape,
Matthew Halsall,
June of 44,
Lucky Dragons,
The Offenders,
Patti Smith,
X-Ray Spex,
The Durutti Column,
Fear,
FM Einheit,
Porter Ricks,
Mary Jane Girls,
Aural Exciters,
Saccharine Trust,
Eden Ahbez,
Lee Hazlewood,
Camouflage,
Janne Schatter,
Barclay James Harvest, Barclay James Harvest, Barclay James Harvest, Barclay James Harvest.
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.