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 Slovenia and from Manchester.
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 1962 to 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Calgary and Woodstock.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Calgary 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 1973 at the first Television practice in a loft in New York.
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 Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel to the crunk 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 Ronnie Foster. All the underground hits.
All Stereo Dub tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Scion 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 '80s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a harpsichord and a spring reverb and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Searchers record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought a sitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a snare.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Grauzone,
The Tremeloes,
Skarface,
Roxette,
Unrelated Segments,
Quadrant,
The Birthday Party,
Lightning Bolt,
The Sisters of Mercy,
Mr. Review,
Minor Threat,
Faust,
The Real Kids,
Robert Görl,
Eden Ahbez,
PIL,
Gregory Isaacs,
Toni Rubio,
Desert Stars,
Scrapy,
Eddi Front,
Japan,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
Sunsets and Hearts,
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band,
Bootsy's Rubber Band,
Scan 7,
Joensuu 1685,
David Bowie,
The Knickerbockers,
Unwound,
Wolf Eyes,
Smog,
Peter & Gordon,
Althea and Donna,
Tropical Tobacco,
Soul Sonic Force,
Joe Finger,
The Electric Prunes,
Interpol,
Sparks,
Pylon,
Lakeside,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Joy Division,
Dark Day,
Essential Logic,
Pet Shop Boys,
Pagans,
Michelle Simonal,
Fear,
The Smiths,
Bizarre Inc.,
Boz Scaggs,
The Divine Comedy,
L. Decosne,
Oppenheimer Analysis,
EPMD,
Alton Ellis,
Maleditus Sound,
Letta Mbulu,
Country Joe & The Fish, Country Joe & The Fish, Country Joe & The Fish, Country Joe & The Fish.
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.