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 Nauru and from Paris.
But I was there.
I was there in 1971.
I was there at the first Neu! show in Düsseldorf.
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 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Manchester and Sao Paulo.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Glasgow 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 at the first Suicide practice in a loft in New York.
I was working on the rhodes 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 Cramps to the jazz kids.
I played it at Cafe Wha.
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 Lindisfarne. All the underground hits.
All The Human League tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Eric Copeland 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 '70s.
I hear you're buying a 808 and a rhodes and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Saints record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought an oboe.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Roxy Music,
John Holt,
Sonic Youth,
The Sonics,
Boogie Down Productions,
Porter Ricks,
The Monks,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Graham Central Station,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
48th St. Collective,
The Jesus and Mary Chain,
a-ha,
The Modern Lovers,
Morten Harket,
the Human League,
Thinking Fellers Union Local 282,
Deadbeat,
Groovy Waters,
MC5,
Loose Ends,
Main Source,
Half Japanese,
Arcadia,
The Searchers,
Jandek,
The Music Machine,
Panda Bear,
Trumans Water,
Alison Limerick,
B.T. Express,
Ituana,
Moby Grape,
Colin Newman,
Circle Jerks,
Delta 5,
The Five Americans,
Sound Behaviour,
MDC,
Bad Manners,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
The Doors,
Fluxion,
Toni Rubio,
This Heat,
Inner City,
Newcleus,
The Tremeloes,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
Grauzone,
Simply Red,
World's Most,
The Neon Judgement,
John Lydon,
Liliput,
Smog,
Fifty Foot Hose,
Maleditus Sound,
Anakelly,
The Fall,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon, Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon, Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon, Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon.
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.