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 Botswana and from Lyon.
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 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Halifax and Seoul.
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 808 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 The Smoke to the rap 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 Ponytail. All the underground hits.
All Bizarre Inc. tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Joensuu 1685 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 '60s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a mellotron and a rhodes and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Ronnie Foster record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a 808.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a mellotron.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Joe Finger,
Altered Images,
The Vogues,
PIL,
Ponytail,
FM Einheit,
Derrick Morgan,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
Fluxion,
Sam Rivers,
Sly & The Family Stone,
Half Japanese,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
The Slits,
Sister Nancy,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
Banda Bassotti,
Goldenarms,
Agitation Free,
Parry Music,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
The Stooges,
Bob Dylan,
Can,
June Days,
Tears for Fears,
The Dirtbombs,
Subhumans,
Mad Mike,
L. Decosne,
Jerry's Kids,
In Retrospect,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
Cybotron,
Radiohead,
The Doobie Brothers,
Boogie Down Productions,
Eric B and Rakim,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Junior Murvin,
Sandy B,
Sun Ra,
David McCallum,
the Swans,
The Neon Judgement,
Hashim,
The Raincoats,
Deepchord,
Animal Collective,
Bang On A Can,
Sonny Sharrock,
Tom Boy,
Circle Jerks,
LL Cool J,
Chrome,
Pharoah Sanders,
U.S. Maple,
AZ,
Average White Band,
The Names, The Names, The Names, The Names.
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.