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 Bosnia Herzegovina and from London.
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 1964 to 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Madrid and Delhi.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Madrid 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 Feelies practice in a loft in Haledon.
I was working on the snare 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 Throbbing Gristle 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 Echospace. All the underground hits.
All Nation of Ulysses tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Notorious Big And Bone Thugs record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal crunk 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 arpeggiator and a synthesizer and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a theremin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a spring reverb.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Gap Band,
Marmalade,
The Young Rascals,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
Sly & The Family Stone,
Al Stewart,
Camberwell Now,
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
The Dead C,
Royal Trux,
Connie Case,
Lightning Bolt,
Kings Of Tomorrow,
Sad Lovers and Giants,
The Cowsills,
Parry Music,
Joy Division,
Easy Going,
Boz Scaggs,
James White and The Blacks,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Nation of Ulysses,
Quantec,
Goldenarms,
Patti Smith,
Oneida,
Kaleidoscope,
Gastr Del Sol,
Crooked Eye,
Fad Gadget,
Wire,
Man Eating Sloth,
kango's stein massive,
Byron Stingily,
Boredoms,
Avey Tare,
Popol Vuh,
Brick,
Jawbox,
Grey Daturas,
Public Enemy,
Tomorrow,
Kango’s Stein Massive,
Television Personalities,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
Rufus Thomas,
Idris Muhammad,
The Fuzztones,
Metal Thangz,
Amazonics,
The Fall,
The Names,
Bizarre Inc.,
The American Breed,
Josef K,
8 Eyed Spy,
Aswad,
The Smiths,
Audionom,
Harpers Bizarre,
Scott Walker, Scott Walker, Scott Walker, Scott Walker.
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.