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 Grenada and from Tehran.
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 1964 to 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Glasgow and London.
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 1984 at the first Arcadia practice in a loft in London.
I was working on the harpsichord 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 Happenings to the grunge kids.
I played it at the Troubador.
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 Neu!. All the underground hits.
All The Wake tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Lyres record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grunge hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a mellotron and a guitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Vaughan Mason & Crew record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a mellotron.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Tropical Tobacco,
Cybotron,
The Index,
The Misunderstood,
the Normal,
ABC,
Big Daddy Kane,
Bluetip,
Depeche Mode,
Babytalk,
Suicide,
Adolescents,
John Foxx,
The Standells,
James White and The Blacks,
Magazine,
Robert Görl,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
Japan,
Monolake,
Monks,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
Lower 48,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
Deakin,
New York Dolls,
Prince Buster,
Skaos,
Nick Fraelich,
The Slits,
Ronan,
The Last Poets,
Silicon Teens,
Susan Cadogan,
Radio Birdman,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
Country Teasers,
Amazonics,
The Cure,
Surgeon,
Yaz,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
Drive Like Jehu,
Mark Hollis,
Eddi Front,
Frankie Knuckles,
The Jesus and Mary Chain,
Flamin' Groovies,
Pet Shop Boys,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
The Sonics,
The Pop Group,
The Five Americans,
Aswad,
the Human League,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
The Victims,
The Invisible,
Gabor Szabo,
Tres Demented,
The Young Rascals, The Young Rascals, The Young Rascals, The Young Rascals.
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.