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 Madagascar and from Accra.
But I was there.
I was there in 1965.
I was there at the first Beefheart show in Lancaster.
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 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Lille and Paris.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Seoul 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 1976 at the first Buzzcocks practice in a loft in Bolton.
I was working on the güiro 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 Fear to the funk 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 One Last Wish. All the underground hits.
All Electric Prunes tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Mojo Men record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rock 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 clarinet and a rhodes and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Lindisfarne record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a 808.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a mellotron.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Gories,
Sexual Harrassment,
The Moleskins,
Moby Grape,
Popol Vuh,
Pierre Henry,
La Düsseldorf,
The Knickerbockers,
a-ha,
Goldenarms,
Matthew Bourne,
Porter Ricks,
the Fania All-Stars,
Gregory Isaacs,
the Germs,
Symarip,
Kerri Chandler,
Au Pairs,
Boogie Down Productions,
New Order,
Zapp,
EPMD,
June Days,
Roxette,
The Raincoats,
Q65,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
Flipper,
Crash Course in Science,
Drexciya,
Dual Sessions,
Barrington Levy,
Animal Collective,
Amazonics,
Von Mondo,
Ultravox,
Gerry Rafferty,
Ultra Naté,
Roger Hodgson,
Hashim,
Bang On A Can,
Kurtis Blow,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Urselle,
Adolescents,
Red Lorry Yellow Lorry,
Marmalade,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
The Motions,
Lyres,
The Litter,
Black Flag,
Chrome,
Freddie Wadling,
Boredoms,
Marvin Gaye,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
The Gladiators,
the Sonics,
Lebanon Hanover,
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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.