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 Finland and from Milan.
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 1966 to 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Houston and Toronto.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Manila 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 Throbbing Gristle practice in a loft in London.
I was working on the mellotron sounds with much patience.
I was there when Holger Czukay 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 Roger Hodgson to the funk kids.
I played it at Cafe Wha.
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 Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience. All the underground hits.
All Ken Boothe tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Thee Headcoats 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 '80s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a güiro and a 808 and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Modern Lovers record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your organ and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought an organ.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Gerry Rafferty,
The Sound,
Motorama,
Lou Reed,
Rufus Thomas,
Crime,
The Alarm Clocks,
Negative Approach,
Nik Kershaw,
Model 500,
Crash Course in Science,
Sandy B,
Fear,
Spandau Ballet,
Darondo,
Nick Fraelich,
Gian Franco Pienzio,
Scion,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Urselle,
F. McDonald,
The United States of America,
The Shadows of Knight,
Louis and Bebe Barron,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
Kas Product,
Glenn Branca,
Ronnie Foster,
Deadbeat,
Junior Murvin,
Ice-T,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
Eyeless In Gaza,
Slave,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Jerry's Kids,
Newcleus,
Outsiders,
Groovy Waters,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
James White and The Blacks,
Goldenarms,
X-Ray Spex,
Nico,
Marc Romboy vs. Booka Shade,
LL Cool J,
Bobby Hutcherson,
Fugazi,
Alton Ellis,
Symarip,
Steve Hackett,
Scan 7,
DNA,
the Normal,
Thinking Fellers Union Local 282,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
Gil Scott Heron,
Marvin Gaye,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
Wasted Youth, Wasted Youth, Wasted Youth, Wasted Youth.
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.