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 Nigeria and from Edmonton.
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 1969 to 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Sao Paulo and Spokane.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Sao Paulo 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 Josef K practice in a loft in Edinburgh.
I was working on the oboe sounds with much patience.
I was there when Nile Rodgers 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 Moleskins to the crunk kids.
I played it at Trash.
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 Remains. All the underground hits.
All Thompson Twins tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Cal Tjader record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal techno 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 an organ and a synthesizer and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Techniques record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your marimba and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a marimba.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
Index,
Barry Ungar,
Cal Tjader,
Joensuu 1685,
Pere Ubu,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Lou Reed,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
Animal Collective,
Metal Thangz,
Avey Tare,
Radiopuhelimet,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
Pulsallama,
Richard Hell and the Voidoids,
The Music Machine,
Joey Negro,
Mark Hollis,
Eurythmics,
Neil Young,
Tomorrow,
ABBA,
JFA,
Magma,
Gong,
The Men They Couldn't Hang,
The Slackers,
John Holt,
The Move,
Terrestrial Tones,
Rhythm & Sound,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
Chrome,
The Grass Roots,
T.S.O.L.,
Los Fastidios,
The Fire Engines,
Circle Jerks,
Radio Birdman,
Warsaw,
The Associates,
Quantec,
In Retrospect,
the Normal,
Flash Fearless,
Spandau Ballet,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
Sparks,
K-Klass,
Mandrill,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Anakelly,
The Cowsills,
Whodini,
Faraquet,
Ice-T,
Ronnie Foster,
Robert Görl,
Cybotron,
Brothers Johnson,
John Coltrane,
cv313,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
Qualms, Qualms, Qualms, Qualms.
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.