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 Tajikistan and from Shanghai.
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 1964 to 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Taipei and Delhi.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Edmonton 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 1987 at the first Nirvana practice in a loft in Seattle.
I was working on the theremin 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 The Smiths to the funk kids.
I played it at the Spitz.
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 Fugazi. All the underground hits.
All Judy Mowatt tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Janne Schatter record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal disco hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying an organ and a clarinet and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Bobby Sherman record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a snare.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Bizarre Inc.,
Man Parrish,
Mission of Burma,
The Mojo Men,
JFA,
Supertramp,
the Bar-Kays,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Warsaw,
Nas,
The Names,
Andrew Hill,
Skarface,
Gang Gang Dance,
Rekid,
Scientists,
Schoolly D,
Kevin Saunderson,
Young Marble Giants,
Larry & the Blue Notes,
Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme,
Sam Rivers,
Grey Daturas,
PIL,
The Zeros,
Jesper Dahlback,
The Slits,
Main Source,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Agitation Free,
Dead Boys,
Spoonie Gee,
Yellowson,
Alphaville,
Scrapy,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
Swans,
Zero Boys,
Jacques Brel,
The Litter,
The Standells,
Surgeon,
Babytalk,
Jacob Miller,
Excepter,
The Selecter,
Tubeway Army,
ABBA,
Nico,
Cal Tjader,
The Mighty Diamonds,
Crash Course in Science,
Clear Light,
Lakeside,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
Robert Görl,
The Gladiators,
Sight & Sound,
Gabor Szabo,
The Vogues,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk, Rahsaan Roland Kirk, Rahsaan Roland Kirk, Rahsaan Roland Kirk.
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.