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 Trinidad & Tobago and from Winnipeg.
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 1961 to 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Salvador and Tokyo.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Salvador 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 1979 at the first Second Layer practice in a loft in South London.
I was working on the mellotron 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 Jandek to the grunge kids.
I played it at the 40 Watt.
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 New Age Steppers. All the underground hits.
All Dave Gahan tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Severed Heads record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal dance hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a snare and an oboe and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Idris Muhammad record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a linndrum.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Peter & Gordon,
Janne Schatter,
LL Cool J,
The Skatalites,
Stockholm Monsters,
The Velvet Underground,
The Cramps,
Tom Boy,
The Victims,
Fatback Band,
These Immortal Souls,
Lakeside,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
Boogie Down Productions,
the Germs,
Michelle Simonal,
ABC,
Pere Ubu,
Eurythmics,
Suburban Knight,
Newcleus,
Blossom Toes,
Black Bananas,
Tropical Tobacco,
Section 25,
Joe Smooth,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
48th St. Collective,
Sun City Girls,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
Colin Newman,
The Sound,
Kango’s Stein Massive,
Gastr Del Sol,
Dawn Penn,
Talk Talk,
Don Cherry,
Bang On A Can,
Lou Reed,
Skriet,
PIL,
Steve Hackett,
Warsaw,
Faust,
Joyce Sims,
Model 500,
Howard Jones,
The Trojans,
Infiniti,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
This Heat,
U.S. Maple,
Zero Boys,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
Aloha Tigers,
Ten City,
Whodini,
Yellowson, Yellowson, Yellowson, Yellowson.
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.