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 Malaysia and from Mumbai.
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 1968 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in New York and Beijing.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Spokane 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 1984 at the first Arcadia practice in a loft in London.
I was working on the spring reverb sounds with much patience.
I was there when Captain Beefheart 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 Mary Jane Girls to the electroclash 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 Jeff Mills. All the underground hits.
All Outsiders tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Model 500 record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal jazz hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a guitar and a güiro and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Lou Reed & Metallica record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a clarinet.
I hear that you and your band have sold your clarinet and bought a chamberlin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Stetsasonic,
Warren Ellis,
Janne Schatter,
Rotary Connection,
The Victims,
Pere Ubu,
Pierre Henry,
The Misunderstood,
Negative Approach,
Nirvana,
Matthew Bourne,
Lucky Dragons,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
Sonny Sharrock,
the Association,
It's A Beautiful Day,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
Oppenheimer Analysis,
ABBA,
Charles Mingus,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
The American Breed,
The Peanut Butter Conspiracy,
cv313,
Strawberry Alarm Clock,
Big Daddy Kane,
Flamin' Groovies,
Jimmy McGriff,
Tim Buckley,
Gastr Del Sol,
Eddi Front,
Letta Mbulu,
E-Dancer,
The Trojans,
London Community Gospel Choir,
Sound Behaviour,
The Kinks,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
The Martian,
Liaisons Dangereuses,
the Human League,
Roy Ayers Ubiquity,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
Ituana,
Black Pus,
Procol Harum,
Pet Shop Boys,
The Neon Judgement,
Rites of Spring,
T.S.O.L.,
The Dave Clark Five,
Minny Pops,
Parry Music,
Bobby Hutcherson,
John Foxx,
Kevin Saunderson,
Kayak,
Echo & the Bunnymen,
Roxy Music,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
Suburban Knight,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap, Gary Puckett & The Union Gap, Gary Puckett & The Union Gap, Gary Puckett & The Union Gap.
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.