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 Qatar and from Woodstock.
But I was there.
I was there in 1976.
I was there at the first Feelies show in Haledon.
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 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Lille and Madrid.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Madrid 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 1983 at the first Bronski Beat practice in a loft in Brixton.
I was working on the güiro 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 Amazonics to the disco 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 Thee Headcoats. All the underground hits.
All Wings tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Bill Near record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal funk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a spring reverb and an oboe and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Sarah Menescal record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a spring reverb.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Gastr Del Sol,
New York Dolls,
Mandrill,
Josef K,
Robert Hood,
Derrick Morgan,
Public Image Ltd.,
The Index,
Erykah Badu,
Joyce Sims,
Fear,
Rod Modell,
Aaron Thompson,
Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane,
Clear Light,
Gong,
Erasure,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
Rhythm & Sound,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
Skriet,
The Leaves,
Khruangbin,
Cabaret Voltaire,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
DNA,
Harpers Bizarre,
Kerrie Biddell,
Vainqueur,
Royal Trux,
The Gun Club,
Peter & Gordon,
Derrick May,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
Sound Behaviour,
L. Decosne,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
Soul Sonic Force,
the Swans,
Fugazi,
Agitation Free,
The Buckinghams,
Max Romeo,
Sonic Youth,
Lee Hazlewood,
Kaleidoscope,
Rakim,
Eurythmics,
Echospace,
Camouflage,
The Fall,
Tom Boy,
A Flock of Seagulls,
Johnny Osbourne,
Teenage Jesus and the Jerks,
Freddie Wadling,
The Names,
Gregory Isaacs,
Babytalk,
John Lydon,
Country Teasers,
Matthew Halsall,
JFA, JFA, JFA, JFA.
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.