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 Poland and from Paris.
But I was there.
I was there in 1977.
I was there at the first Human League show in Sheffield.
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 1960 to 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Bologna and Edmonton.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Toronto 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 1971 at the first Big Star practice in a loft in Memphis.
I was working on the sitar 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 The Pretty Things to the electroclash kids.
I played it at the 40 Watt.
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 Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience. All the underground hits.
All Rhythim Is Rhythim tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Black Moon record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grime hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a guitar and a mellotron and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a 808.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Amazonics,
Negative Approach,
Bobbi Humphrey,
Brand Nubian,
Bob Dylan,
Todd Terry,
The Gories,
Tommy Roe,
DJ Style,
Buzzcocks,
Malaria!,
Kerri Chandler,
Maurizio,
The Pop Group,
Index,
Iggy Pop,
Cheater Slicks,
Davy DMX,
cv313,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
L. Decosne,
Nils Olav,
Ralphi Rosario,
EPMD,
Janne Schatter,
Soulsonic Force,
Niagra,
Minny Pops,
H. Thieme,
Crime,
Alphaville,
T. Rex,
the Normal,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
Don Cherry,
Laurel Aitken,
Depeche Mode,
David Bowie,
ABC,
X-102,
John Holt,
John Lydon,
China Crisis,
Vladislav Delay,
The Victims,
Theoretical Girls,
Ludus,
This Heat,
Barry Ungar,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
John Foxx,
Alice Coltrane,
Sunsets and Hearts,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
Roy Ayers,
The Last Poets,
UT,
The Fire Engines,
Yazoo,
Kenny Larkin,
The Alarm Clocks,
Severed Heads,
Deepchord,
The Durutti Column, The Durutti Column, The Durutti Column, The Durutti Column.
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.