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 Dominican Republic and from Manila.
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 Milan and London.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Johannesburg 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 chamberlin sounds with much patience.
I was there when Michael McDonald 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 Slits to the grunge 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 Lindisfarne. All the underground hits.
All Henry Cow tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Pretty Things 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 '90s.
I hear you're buying an oboe and a marimba and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Deadbeat record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought a theremin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a snare.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
K-Klass,
Yellowson,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Kurtis Blow,
Toni Rubio,
Cal Tjader,
Talk Talk,
Agent Orange,
DNA,
Lungfish,
The Monochrome Set,
The Music Machine,
Sister Nancy,
Negative Approach,
Sly & The Family Stone,
Babytalk,
The Pretty Things,
Erasure,
Darondo,
Mr. Review,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Flash Fearless,
Bush Tetras,
Morten Harket,
Sixth Finger,
China Crisis,
Blake Baxter,
Tears for Fears,
Sällskapet,
The Gories,
Adolescents,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Hashim,
The Kinks,
Yusef Lateef,
Whodini,
ABC,
Lalo Schifrin,
Saccharine Trust,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
The Doors,
the Fania All-Stars,
Arthur Verocai,
Gong,
Fort Wilson Riot,
The Cowsills,
Nils Olav,
Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane,
Tim Buckley,
Tropical Tobacco,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Con Funk Shun,
Matthew Halsall,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
Wasted Youth,
Shuggie Otis,
Jandek,
Larry & the Blue Notes,
Sad Lovers and Giants,
Cybotron,
Lakeside,
the Normal,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch, Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch, Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch, Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch.
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.