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 Denmark and from Cairo.
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 1969 to 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Accra and Bologna.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Seoul 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 1975 at the first Ubu practice in a loft in Cleveland.
I was working on the guitar 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 Pet Shop Boys to the rock kids.
I played it at the Troubador.
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 Heavy D & The Boyz. All the underground hits.
All Intrusion tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal electroclash 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 a synthesizer and a harpsichord and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Buckinghams record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a güiro.
I hear that you and your band have sold your güiro and bought a spring reverb.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Scan 7,
Y Pants,
Roy Ayers,
The Mighty Diamonds,
Von Mondo,
Panda Bear,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
The Evens,
Sunsets and Hearts,
Alphaville,
Organ,
Interpol,
Peter & Gordon,
Aloha Tigers,
The Misunderstood,
Harpers Bizarre,
Gerry Rafferty,
Hasil Adkins,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
Animal Collective,
Gang Gang Dance,
Radio Birdman,
Rites of Spring,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
Mo-Dettes,
Kenny Larkin,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
Public Enemy,
The Dave Clark Five,
Janne Schatter,
Whodini,
the Association,
Dorothy Ashby,
The Cure,
The Cosmic Jokers,
DJ Sneak,
Stiv Bators,
New York Dolls,
Matthew Bourne,
Visage,
Black Flag,
Bluetip,
The Pretty Things,
Unrelated Segments,
Larry & the Blue Notes,
The Index,
Sex Pistols,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
Country Teasers,
The Star Department,
The Vogues,
10cc,
Supertramp,
Marc Romboy vs. Booka Shade,
Sonny Sharrock,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Lalo Schifrin,
Gil Scott Heron,
R.M.O.,
The Five Americans,
Minutemen, Minutemen, Minutemen, Minutemen.
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.