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 Nauru and from Accra.
But I was there.
I was there in 1977.
I was there at the first Zapp show in Hamilton.
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 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Sao Paulo and Paris.
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 Tom Verlaine 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 Ohio Players to the rock kids.
I played it at the Roxy.
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 The Fall. All the underground hits.
All Japan tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft 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 '80s.
I hear you're buying a rhodes and an arpeggiator and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Scion record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a rhodes.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a 808.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
Section 25,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
Jeff Lynne,
Tres Demented,
Loose Ends,
Letta Mbulu,
Guru Guru,
Erasure,
Grauzone,
Bad Manners,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
Unrelated Segments,
Camberwell Now,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
World's Most,
Fugazi,
The Monochrome Set,
Massinfluence,
Thee Headcoats,
Louis and Bebe Barron,
The Happenings,
Vladislav Delay,
Don Cherry,
Archie Shepp,
Richard Hell and the Voidoids,
Livin' Joy,
Urselle,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
Electric Light Orchestra,
UT,
Bootsy's Rubber Band,
Scientists,
Hashim,
Tim Buckley,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
Radiohead,
Fort Wilson Riot,
The Count Five,
Brand Nubian,
Ohio Players,
Juan Atkins,
Au Pairs,
The Wake,
Todd Rundgren,
Gregory Isaacs,
Darondo,
Mad Mike,
the Association,
Harpers Bizarre,
The Fortunes,
Iggy Pop,
Groovy Waters,
The Mighty Diamonds,
Warren Ellis,
Wire,
The Tremeloes,
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band,
Los Fastidios,
The Leaves,
Inner City,
Alphaville,
Minutemen,
Bill Wells, Bill Wells, Bill Wells, Bill Wells.
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.