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 Lebanon and from Beijing.
But I was there.
I was there in 1976.
I was there at the first Chic show in New York.
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 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Salvador and Toronto.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Manila 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 spring reverb 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 Icehouse to the disco 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 Interpol. All the underground hits.
All John Lydon tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Flash Fearless 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 '60s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a spring reverb and a 808 and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Graham Central Station record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your clarinet and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a clarinet.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Echospace,
London Community Gospel Choir,
Oppenheimer Analysis,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
Ponytail,
Kaleidoscope,
Hot Snakes,
Average White Band,
Max Romeo,
The Detroit Cobras,
Warren Ellis,
Inner City,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Scan 7,
Sex Pistols,
Ralphi Rosario,
David Axelrod,
Fatback Band,
Tom Boy,
The Buckinghams,
Livin' Joy,
China Crisis,
Darondo,
Fad Gadget,
Zero Boys,
Camberwell Now,
Brass Construction,
Blake Baxter,
The Raincoats,
Donny Hathaway,
Young Marble Giants,
Cybotron,
Marine Girls,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
David Bowie,
The Sonics,
Theoretical Girls,
LL Cool J,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Arthur Verocai,
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band,
Barclay James Harvest,
The Electric Prunes,
Supertramp,
Duran Duran,
Bob Dylan,
Television Personalities,
Dark Day,
The Cosmic Jokers,
Janne Schatter,
Frankie Knuckles,
The Victims,
It's A Beautiful Day,
Kurtis Blow,
Bill Near,
Negative Approach,
the Germs,
Henry Cow,
Easy Going,
The Gories,
New Order,
The Young Rascals,
Eyeless In Gaza, Eyeless In Gaza, Eyeless In Gaza, Eyeless In Gaza.
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.