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 Turkey and from London.
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 1962 to 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Philadelphia and Edmonton.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Accra 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 oboe 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 Circle Jerks to the disco kids.
I played it at the Crocodile.
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 Little Man. All the underground hits.
All Can tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Ajijia Myrayebe 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 '70s.
I hear you're buying a 808 and a synthesizer and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Gregory Isaacs record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a chamberlin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
Aaron Thompson,
Richard Hell and the Voidoids,
Black Bananas,
Derrick Morgan,
Bang On A Can,
The Sound,
ABBA,
Roxy Music,
Be Bop Deluxe,
Hashim,
Cluster,
Bad Manners,
Scratch Acid,
The Pretty Things,
Scrapy,
Ken Boothe,
Danielle Patucci,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
Arcadia,
Bronski Beat,
10cc,
Lee Hazlewood,
Rapeman,
Dennis Brown,
Black Sheep,
Ronan,
Judy Mowatt,
Babytalk,
Joensuu 1685,
Connie Case,
Black Flag,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
Thee Headcoats,
Mars,
These Immortal Souls,
Sixth Finger,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
Parry Music,
The Cure,
The Toasters,
Black Pus,
Adolescents,
Flamin' Groovies,
Wire,
Lyres,
Skriet,
8 Eyed Spy,
LL Cool J,
Todd Rundgren,
Kango’s Stein Massive,
Kerri Chandler,
Easy Going,
Lindisfarne,
FM Einheit,
Barclay James Harvest,
Gabor Szabo,
Lungfish,
Big Daddy Kane,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
A Flock of Seagulls,
Malaria!,
Minnie Riperton,
Bill Wells, Bill Wells, Bill Wells, Bill Wells.
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.