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 Korea North and from Lagos.
But I was there.
I was there in 1968.
I was there at the first Bowie show in Bromley.
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 1962 to 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Woodstock and Jakarta.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Portland 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 1977 at the first Zapp practice in a loft in Hamilton.
I was working on the guitar 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 Theoretical Girls to the techno 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 The Fortunes. All the underground hits.
All Technova tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Letta Mbulu record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grunge hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a snare and a linndrum and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Index record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a linndrum.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Boogie Down Productions,
Maurizio,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
Teenage Jesus and the Jerks,
Buzzcocks,
The Index,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
The Move,
Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane,
James Chance & The Contortions,
Agitation Free,
Wings,
Clear Light,
The Mojo Men,
Cymande,
World's Most,
Porter Ricks,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
Alton Ellis,
Shoche,
Television Personalities,
Bootsy Collins,
Toni Rubio,
Reuben Wilson,
Sam Rivers,
Q65,
The Misunderstood,
Maleditus Sound,
Jeff Lynne,
Stereo Dub,
Gong,
Index,
Louis and Bebe Barron,
Bobbi Humphrey,
Matthew Halsall,
Al Stewart,
Man Parrish,
The Litter,
Wally Richardson,
Bronski Beat,
China Crisis,
Quando Quango,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
Soul Sonic Force,
The Busters,
The Martian,
U.S. Maple,
Barry Ungar,
Cabaret Voltaire,
Mary Jane Girls,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Kayak,
Heaven 17,
Marc Romboy vs. Booka Shade,
Minor Threat,
Goldenarms,
Sonic Youth,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Spandau Ballet, Spandau Ballet, Spandau Ballet, Spandau Ballet.
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.