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 Bahrain and from Columbus.
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 1969 to 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Hong Kong and Mumbai.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Copenhagen 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 mellotron sounds with much patience.
I was there when Nile Rodgers 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 Todd Rundgren to the funk kids.
I played it at CBGB's.
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 Heaven 17. All the underground hits.
All Royal Trux tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Kas Product 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 '70s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a harpsichord and a mellotron and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Agitation Free record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a theremin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought an oboe.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Boogie Down Productions,
New Order,
Chris Corsano,
Sound Behaviour,
Das Ding,
Stockholm Monsters,
X-102,
The Knickerbockers,
Minutemen,
Arcadia,
Porter Ricks,
The Dead C,
Tomorrow,
Ralphi Rosario,
Flash Fearless,
Radiohead,
Tears for Fears,
Neil Young,
John Cale,
ABC,
Chris & Cosey,
The Victims,
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band,
T.S.O.L.,
Eric Dolphy,
John Holt,
Nirvana,
Yaz,
Derrick Morgan,
In Retrospect,
Connie Case,
Marvin Gaye,
Kurtis Blow,
Lebanon Hanover,
Second Layer,
Prince Buster,
The Saints,
Jeff Lynne,
Buzzcocks,
Thee Headcoats,
The Gun Club,
Severed Heads,
Black Sheep,
The Cramps,
These Immortal Souls,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Bootsy's Rubber Band,
Deakin,
The Tremeloes,
Bluetip,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Von Mondo,
Angels of Light & Akron/Family,
Joe Smooth,
Fela Kuti,
the Sonics,
Peter and Kerry,
Dual Sessions,
Procol Harum,
The Neon Judgement, The Neon Judgement, The Neon Judgement, The Neon Judgement.
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.