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 India and from Mexico City.
But I was there.
I was there in 1973.
I was there at the first Television show in New York.
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 1968 to 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Portland and Mumbai.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Sao Paulo 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 Buzzcocks practice in a loft in Bolton.
I was working on the güiro sounds with much patience.
I was there when Robert Palmer 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 Amon Düül II to the techno kids.
I played it at Trash.
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 Moleskins. All the underground hits.
All Lyres tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Matthew Halsall record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rap hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a rhodes and a linndrum and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Louis and Bebe Barron record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a linndrum.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Urselle,
Parry Music,
Symarip,
Harry Pussy,
Minutemen,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Bauhaus,
Liaisons Dangereuses,
Maleditus Sound,
Marc Romboy vs. Booka Shade,
Blossom Toes,
Morten Harket,
Motorama,
Royal Trux,
The Walker Brothers,
Procol Harum,
Ossler,
Jacob Miller,
Khruangbin,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
Index,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Faraquet,
These Immortal Souls,
Tommy Roe,
EPMD,
Arcadia,
K-Klass,
Chris & Cosey,
The Detroit Cobras,
Moby Grape,
Visage,
the Soft Cell,
Strawberry Alarm Clock,
Gerry Rafferty,
Ponytail,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
Theoretical Girls,
Zapp,
Josef K,
Teenage Jesus and the Jerks,
Don Cherry,
Yaz,
Average White Band,
Ronan,
Das Ding,
The Offenders,
Patti Smith,
The Cramps,
Severed Heads,
The Tremeloes,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
The Music Machine,
Kerri Chandler,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Amon Düül II,
Brothers Johnson,
Ohio Players,
Fifty Foot Hose,
Bronski Beat, Bronski Beat, Bronski Beat, Bronski Beat.
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.