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 Japan and from Sao Paulo.
But I was there.
I was there in 1976.
I was there at the first Buzzcocks show in Bolton.
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 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Woodstock and Paris.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Sao Paulo 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 arpeggiator sounds with much patience.
I was there when Lou Reed 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 Hashim to the rock 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 Motorama. All the underground hits.
All Anakelly tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every JFA 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 an oboe and a güiro and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Lebanon Hanover record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought an organ.
I hear that you and your band have sold your organ and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Sonics,
Mary Jane Girls,
Warren Ellis,
David McCallum,
Buzzcocks,
The Selecter,
Gong,
Barbara Tucker,
Unwound,
Glambeats Corp.,
Bizarre Inc.,
AZ,
The Busters,
Joyce Sims,
The Moody Blues,
Marc Romboy vs. Booka Shade,
Larry & the Blue Notes,
Minor Threat,
Idris Muhammad,
The Dave Clark Five,
Radiopuhelimet,
Cybotron,
Graham Central Station,
Funky Four + One,
Hashim,
Isaac Hayes,
The Gladiators,
Los Fastidios,
MDC,
Ken Boothe,
Hardrive,
Newcleus,
Fluxion,
Rhythm & Sound,
Lucky Dragons,
Lalann,
L. Decosne,
Television Personalities,
Carl Craig,
Girls At Our Best!,
The Doors,
KRS-One,
Electric Prunes,
Peter & Gordon,
Agitation Free,
Whodini,
Mission of Burma,
Sun City Girls,
Eurythmics,
Eddi Front,
Ornette Coleman,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
The Happenings,
Bauhaus,
Henry Cow,
Gang Gang Dance,
H. Thieme,
Avey Tare's Slasher Flicks,
Lungfish,
Boogie Down Productions,
The Seeds,
ABC, ABC, ABC, ABC.
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.