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 Ethiopia and from Toronto.
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 1963 to 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Manchester and Mexico City.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Glasgow 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 1979 at the first Second Layer practice in a loft in South London.
I was working on the mellotron sounds with much patience.
I was there when Captain Beefheart 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 Bronski Beat to the techno kids.
I played it at the 40 Watt.
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 This Heat. All the underground hits.
All Radiohead tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Amazonics record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal dance hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a 808 and a sitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Make Up record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your güiro and bought a spring reverb.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a güiro.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Jandek,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Slick Rick,
Scott Walker,
The Young Rascals,
Delta 5,
Faraquet,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Angry Samoans,
Liliput,
Half Japanese,
Moby Grape,
Sight & Sound,
Flash Fearless,
Big Daddy Kane,
Jacques Brel,
The Slackers,
Symarip,
Sonny Sharrock,
Jeff Mills,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
The Blues Magoos,
Quando Quango,
Marvin Gaye,
Section 25,
Mars,
Bang on a Can All-Stars,
Roxette,
The Star Department,
Amon Düül,
Frankie Knuckles,
Intrusion,
The Pop Group,
Brick,
Man Parrish,
The Smiths,
Grauzone,
Index,
The Angels of Light,
Terry Callier,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
the Germs,
Donny Hathaway,
Moebius,
Thompson Twins,
Roxy Music,
Maurizio,
The Fire Engines,
The Doors,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
The Skatalites,
the Normal,
These Immortal Souls,
Minor Threat,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
The Mummies,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
MDC,
Television,
The Leaves,
the Soft Cell, the Soft Cell, the Soft Cell, the Soft Cell.
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.