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 Belgium and from Toronto.
But I was there.
I was there in 1976.
I was there at the first Buzzcocks show in Bolton.
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 1967 to 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Lyon and Copenhagen.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Mumbai 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 güiro sounds with much patience.
I was there when Captain Beefheart 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 Absolute Body Control to the jazz kids.
I played it at the Hacienda.
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 Drive Like Jehu. All the underground hits.
All Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Human League record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grime hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a chamberlin and an organ and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a China Crisis record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a harpsichord.
I hear that you and your band have sold your harpsichord and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
L. Decosne,
Amon Düül II,
Matthew Halsall,
Vainqueur,
Jerry's Kids,
John Coltrane,
Supertramp,
Nico,
Adolescents,
The Gap Band,
a-ha,
10cc,
Banda Bassotti,
Make Up,
Fat Boys,
Lindisfarne,
Byron Stingily,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Alphaville,
Wire,
The Techniques,
Bronski Beat,
Michelle Simonal,
Livin' Joy,
Bill Wells,
Joey Negro,
The Cure,
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
Archie Shepp,
Silicon Teens,
Bluetip,
X-101,
Lightning Bolt,
The Associates,
Terry Callier,
Erykah Badu,
The Human League,
Theoretical Girls,
Negative Approach,
Dennis Brown,
Sun Ra,
Throbbing Gristle,
Ohio Players,
Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson,
Man Parrish,
The Raincoats,
The Fall,
Brothers Johnson,
Donald Byrd,
Trumans Water,
Kayak,
MC5,
Slick Rick,
Symarip,
The Count Five,
U.S. Maple,
Eden Ahbez,
Arab on Radar,
Davy DMX,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
Underground Resistance,
Rotary Connection,
The Kinks, The Kinks, The Kinks, The Kinks.
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.