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 Switzerland and from Jakarta.
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 1964 to 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Columbus and Milan.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school New York 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 1976 at the first Buzzcocks practice in a loft in Bolton.
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 The Smiths to the funk kids.
I played it at the Troubador.
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 Lower 48. All the underground hits.
All Radio Birdman tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Moby Grape record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal jazz hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying an organ and a guitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Country Teasers record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought an arpeggiator.
I hear that you and your band have sold your arpeggiator and bought a snare.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Bill Near,
OOIOO,
EPMD,
Theoretical Girls,
Derrick Morgan,
Terrestrial Tones,
Isaac Hayes,
Crispian St. Peters,
Gastr Del Sol,
Ludus,
World's Most,
Nico,
Matthew Halsall,
Animal Collective,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Richard Hell and the Voidoids,
Heaven 17,
The Selecter,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
Scion,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Cheater Slicks,
Stereo Dub,
Morten Harket,
The Gladiators,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
Crispy Ambulance,
Royal Trux,
The Alarm Clocks,
Pantytec,
Swell Maps,
LL Cool J,
KRS-One,
Gil Scott Heron,
Amon Düül II,
Jerry's Kids,
Easy Going,
Lalo Schifrin,
Talk Talk,
Brass Construction,
Max Romeo,
Josef K,
The Grass Roots,
Cameo,
Lower 48,
Nik Kershaw,
Agitation Free,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
Barrington Levy,
Dual Sessions,
Joyce Sims,
Soul Sonic Force,
Dorothy Ashby,
Sällskapet,
Oneida,
Kings Of Tomorrow,
Sad Lovers and Giants,
Severed Heads,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
Man Parrish,
Skriet,
Moss Icon,
The Tremeloes, The Tremeloes, The Tremeloes, The Tremeloes.
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.