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 Russia and from Johannesburg.
But I was there.
I was there in 1967.
I was there at the first Rodriguez show in Detroit.
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 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Milan and Toronto.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Tehran 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 spring reverb sounds with much patience.
I was there when Nile Rodgers 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 Barclay James Harvest to the dance 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 Robert Wyatt. All the underground hits.
All Pylon tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Goldenarms record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal punk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a sitar and a guitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Anakelly record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought a linndrum.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a snare.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Rotary Connection,
Lungfish,
The Move,
ABC,
Peter & Gordon,
Crispian St. Peters,
Lightning Bolt,
Icehouse,
James White and The Blacks,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
The Smiths,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
MC5,
Reuben Wilson,
Lakeside,
The Offenders,
Joensuu 1685,
Blake Baxter,
Half Japanese,
Lower 48,
Organ,
T.S.O.L.,
Nils Olav,
The Gories,
The Star Department,
The Dirtbombs,
Howard Jones,
Rekid,
Radiopuhelimet,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Tears for Fears,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Soft Cell,
Morten Harket,
Boredoms,
Gerry Rafferty,
The Litter,
Ultra Naté,
Dorothy Ashby,
Faraquet,
Lucky Dragons,
The Cosmic Jokers,
Ultravox,
Make Up,
Thinking Fellers Union Local 282,
Chrome,
Cecil Taylor,
Index,
Sam Rivers,
Boogie Down Productions,
Pylon,
a-ha,
The Zeros,
Radio Birdman,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
June Days,
Lyres,
Mad Mike,
Jandek,
Nas,
ABBA,
Grandmaster Flash,
Brass Construction,
Marcia Griffiths, Marcia Griffiths, Marcia Griffiths, Marcia Griffiths.
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.