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 Togo and from Lagos.
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 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Lagos and New York.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Manchester 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 1983 at the first Lewis practice in a loft in Vancouver.
I was working on the mellotron sounds with much patience.
I was there when Tom Verlaine 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 Peter & Gordon to the disco kids.
I played it at the Hacienda.
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 DNA. All the underground hits.
All The Divine Comedy tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every the Association record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal disco hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a rhodes and a snare and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Birthday Party record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your arpeggiator and bought a theremin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought an arpeggiator.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Slick Rick,
Electric Prunes,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Drive Like Jehu,
The Residents,
Average White Band,
Cluster,
Lebanon Hanover,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Ludus,
Cheater Slicks,
The Remains,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
Hasil Adkins,
Derrick Morgan,
London Community Gospel Choir,
Chris & Cosey,
Sly & The Family Stone,
Zapp,
Half Japanese,
The Invisible,
Henry Cow,
Eric B and Rakim,
Roxy Music,
The Detroit Cobras,
Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme,
Parry Music,
E-Dancer,
Maleditus Sound,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
The Skatalites,
Bobby Byrd,
Angels of Light & Akron/Family,
The Trojans,
Leonard Cohen,
Nils Olav,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Heaven 17,
Procol Harum,
Soul II Soul,
Gang of Four,
Depeche Mode,
Loose Ends,
Nico,
Pussy Galore,
John Lydon,
the Slits,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
The Mummies,
Joyce Sims,
the Normal,
Yazoo,
Nirvana,
New Order,
Kool Moe Dee,
Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane,
Sarah Menescal,
PIL,
Louis and Bebe Barron,
Dawn Penn, Dawn Penn, Dawn Penn, Dawn Penn.
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.