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 Ukraine 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 1960 to 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Glasgow and Glasgow.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Columbus 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 Wire practice in a loft in Watford.
I was working on the synthesizer 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 Sight & Sound to the rap 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 Bobby Sherman. All the underground hits.
All Fugazi tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Guru Guru 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 '80s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying an organ and a theremin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a the Human League record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought an oboe.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a mellotron.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Massinfluence,
Bang on a Can All-Stars,
Country Joe & The Fish,
Suicide,
Slick Rick,
Young Marble Giants,
Sugar Minott,
Idris Muhammad,
Moby Grape,
Marmalade,
Louis and Bebe Barron,
Magazine,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Das Ding,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
Parry Music,
The Velvet Underground,
Index,
Shoche,
Ultravox,
The Detroit Cobras,
Max Romeo,
Outsiders,
Basic Channel,
Scion,
Audionom,
The Martian,
Circle Jerks,
Nick Fraelich,
The Fugs,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
Barrington Levy,
Porter Ricks,
Grey Daturas,
Little Man,
Yellowson,
Roxy Music,
Bush Tetras,
Glambeats Corp.,
The Peanut Butter Conspiracy,
Eve St. Jones,
Sexual Harrassment,
Swans,
Kerri Chandler,
Ash Ra Tempel,
Grauzone,
Schoolly D,
Joe Finger,
Ultra Naté,
Funkadelic,
The Litter,
Alice Coltrane,
Gregory Isaacs,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
Zapp,
Average White Band,
Absolute Body Control,
Howard Jones,
June Days,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Johnny Osbourne,
Bobby Sherman,
Harry Pussy,
The Royal Family And The Poor, The Royal Family And The Poor, The Royal Family And The Poor, The Royal Family And The Poor.
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.