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 Qatar and from Delhi.
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 1962 to 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Manila and Calgary.
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 1979 at the first Second Layer practice in a loft in South London.
I was working on the güiro 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 The Pretty Things to the electroclash kids.
I played it at the 40 Watt.
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 Talk Talk. All the underground hits.
All 48th St. Collective tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Lou Reed & Metallica record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal electroclash hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a clarinet and a spring reverb and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Electric Light Orchestra record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a sitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a theremin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Steve Hackett,
Unwound,
Tim Buckley,
Todd Rundgren,
Electric Prunes,
These Immortal Souls,
Index,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
Suburban Knight,
The Stooges,
Faraquet,
Stetsasonic,
Von Mondo,
Hot Snakes,
Minor Threat,
Amon Düül,
Swans,
Chris Corsano,
Maleditus Sound,
D'Angelo,
Lou Reed,
Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane,
Audionom,
Loose Ends,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
The Techniques,
T.S.O.L.,
Warren Ellis,
Pet Shop Boys,
Roger Hodgson,
The Cramps,
One Last Wish,
The Jesus and Mary Chain,
Khruangbin,
The Invisible,
The Divine Comedy,
The Five Americans,
Rekid,
Nick Fraelich,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
The Mojo Men,
Bobby Byrd,
The Offenders,
Technova,
Gichy Dan,
Visage,
Japan,
A Certain Ratio,
Ultravox,
Average White Band,
Dorothy Ashby,
Eyeless In Gaza,
Angels of Light & Akron/Family,
Peter and Kerry,
Althea and Donna,
Magma,
Neil Young,
Marvin Gaye,
Liaisons Dangereuses,
The Fire Engines,
Moss Icon,
Tres Demented, Tres Demented, Tres Demented, Tres Demented.
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.