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 Vanuatu and from Tehran.
But I was there.
I was there in 1971.
I was there at the first Selda show in Istanbul.
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 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Glasgow and Milan.
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 1979 at the first Second Layer practice in a loft in South London.
I was working on the theremin sounds with much patience.
I was there when Donald Fagen 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 Barracudas to the dance 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 Echospace. All the underground hits.
All Colin Newman tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Lee Hazlewood 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 '80s.
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 The Busters record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Circle Jerks,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
Barry Ungar,
Yaz,
Barclay James Harvest,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
Amon Düül,
U.S. Maple,
Warsaw,
Derrick May,
Mary Jane Girls,
Technova,
Ten City,
Freddie Wadling,
Scan 7,
X-101,
L. Decosne,
Moebius,
Ituana,
Kerri Chandler,
John Lydon,
Swell Maps,
Rufus Thomas,
Sound Behaviour,
Girls At Our Best!,
The Alarm Clocks,
Skriet,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Lindisfarne,
Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme,
R.M.O.,
The Last Poets,
Boredoms,
Neil Young,
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark,
Ronnie Foster,
The Victims,
Faust,
the Sonics,
Jandek,
Parry Music,
Minutemen,
Glenn Branca,
The Knickerbockers,
Grauzone,
In Retrospect,
Grandmaster Flash,
Yellowson,
Subhumans,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Massinfluence,
Basic Channel,
Patti Smith,
The Blues Magoos,
Lucky Dragons,
Gang of Four,
Livin' Joy,
Nas,
The Detroit Cobras,
Leonard Cohen,
Thee Headcoats,
The Dave Clark Five, The Dave Clark Five, The Dave Clark Five, The Dave Clark Five.
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.