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 Morocco and from Shanghai.
But I was there.
I was there in 1968.
I was there at the first Bowie show in Bromley.
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 1968 to 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Bremen and Mumbai.
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 1971 at the first Big Star practice in a loft in Memphis.
I was working on the mellotron 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 Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch to the techno 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 Avey Tare. All the underground hits.
All Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Suburban Knight 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 '80s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a marimba and a synthesizer and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Pop Group record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a mellotron.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Kerrie Biddell,
Barrington Levy,
Marc Romboy vs. Booka Shade,
Gian Franco Pienzio,
Eric Dolphy,
DJ Sneak,
Rotary Connection,
Bobby Byrd,
Aaron Thompson,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Niagra,
Moby Grape,
Darondo,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
Jeff Lynne,
The Slits,
The American Breed,
The Barracudas,
Y Pants,
Tears for Fears,
Yazoo,
Pussy Galore,
Excepter,
Livin' Joy,
Pantaleimon,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
Marmalade,
Bootsy's Rubber Band,
Eurythmics,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft,
Easy Going,
Minny Pops,
E-Dancer,
Moebius,
Intrusion,
Arthur Verocai,
Al Stewart,
Reuben Wilson,
Marine Girls,
Todd Terry,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
Flipper,
Marshall Jefferson,
MDC,
Yaz,
Roy Ayers Ubiquity,
Eve St. Jones,
The Red Krayola,
Delta 5,
Juan Atkins,
Robert Görl,
Warren Ellis,
The Cosmic Jokers,
Soulsonic Force,
Pet Shop Boys,
The Stooges,
Mo-Dettes,
DJ Style,
a-ha,
Gang Green,
Japan,
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.