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 Lebanon and from Columbus.
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 1961 to 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Sao Paulo and London.
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 1971 at the first Big Star practice in a loft in Memphis.
I was working on the snare 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 Blancmange to the techno 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 Josef K. All the underground hits.
All Sällskapet tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Warsaw record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal disco hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a rhodes and a theremin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Dual Sessions record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your organ and bought a snare.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought an organ.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
China Crisis,
Teenage Jesus and the Jerks,
Eve St. Jones,
kango's stein massive,
Archie Shepp,
Crooked Eye,
The Pretty Things,
Ohio Players,
New Order,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
Bluetip,
The Angels of Light,
Kings Of Tomorrow,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
48th St. Collective,
Dark Day,
Main Source,
Deadbeat,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
Country Joe & The Fish,
Aloha Tigers,
The Wake,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
The Monochrome Set,
Public Enemy,
The Kinks,
the Germs,
Eden Ahbez,
Ornette Coleman,
The Grass Roots,
Fluxion,
Sandy B,
Selector Dub Narcotic,
Lakeside,
Magma,
Chrome,
Morten Harket,
EPMD,
Rotary Connection,
Vainqueur,
Prince Buster,
Scrapy,
Johnny Osbourne,
The Peanut Butter Conspiracy,
Amon Düül II,
The Smiths,
Agitation Free,
Lou Reed,
The Stooges,
Wire,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
Infiniti,
Angels of Light & Akron/Family,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Oblivians,
The Jesus and Mary Chain,
The Remains,
Slick Rick,
Monolake,
UT,
Skarface,
Bobby Womack, Bobby Womack, Bobby Womack, Bobby Womack.
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.