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 Cameroon and from Stockholm.
But I was there.
I was there in 1984.
I was there at the first Arcadia show in London.
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 1966 to 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Edmonton and Spokane.
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 1977 at the first Human League practice in a loft in Sheffield.
I was working on the chamberlin 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 Minor Threat to the dance kids.
I played it at the Roxy.
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 Chocolate Watch Band. All the underground hits.
All Neil Young tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Scientists record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal punk 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 harpsichord and a snare and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Average White Band record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a clarinet.
I hear that you and your band have sold your clarinet and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Peter & Gordon,
Jerry Gold Smith,
UT,
Rod Modell,
Zapp,
Junior Murvin,
Ten City,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
Magazine,
The Pop Group,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
Ludus,
H. Thieme,
Agitation Free,
Lalo Schifrin,
Dawn Penn,
Flamin' Groovies,
The Count Five,
Mr. Review,
Outsiders,
Jawbox,
Q and Not U,
Rites of Spring,
The Misunderstood,
The Index,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Icehouse,
Eli Mardock,
Girls At Our Best!,
Talk Talk,
Young Marble Giants,
Oppenheimer Analysis,
Ultra Naté,
The Residents,
Lou Reed,
Boogie Down Productions,
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band,
The American Breed,
The Busters,
Grauzone,
Donald Byrd,
8 Eyed Spy,
Minutemen,
DNA,
Maurizio,
The New Christs,
Subhumans,
The Litter,
Camouflage,
Jandek,
Babytalk,
Desert Stars,
David Axelrod,
The Moleskins,
Nation of Ulysses,
Skaos,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Minny Pops,
Fifty Foot Hose,
John Coltrane,
Joe Finger, Joe Finger, Joe Finger, Joe Finger.
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.