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 Argentina and from Mumbai.
But I was there.
I was there in 1976.
I was there at the first Wire show in Watford.
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 1965 to 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Mumbai and Tokyo.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Calgary 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 Robert Palmer 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 Underground Resistance to the electroclash kids.
I played it at the Astoria.
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 Eden Ahbez. All the underground hits.
All Jacob Miller tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Jeru the Damaja 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 '60s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a harpsichord and a guitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Audionom record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a spring reverb.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a 808.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
David Bowie,
Massinfluence,
Traffic Nightmare,
Black Flag,
Donald Byrd,
Rosa Yemen,
Judy Mowatt,
Supertramp,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Marc Romboy vs. Booka Shade,
Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson,
Roger Hodgson,
Boogie Down Productions,
The American Breed,
Smog,
Cymande,
Thinking Fellers Union Local 282,
June of 44,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
8 Eyed Spy,
Godley & Creme,
Zero Boys,
Chrome,
the Germs,
UT,
Monolake,
R.M.O.,
Bobby Womack,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
Urselle,
Johnny Osbourne,
The Move,
The Durutti Column,
Sonny Sharrock,
Agent Orange,
John Coltrane,
Bizarre Inc.,
Angry Samoans,
Stetsasonic,
Ponytail,
Thee Headcoats,
The Wake,
Public Image Ltd.,
Buzzcocks,
the Swans,
Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines,
Sight & Sound,
Fela Kuti,
Scott Walker,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
A Flock of Seagulls,
The Walker Brothers,
Nas,
Niagra,
Bad Manners,
Jacques Brel,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Scion,
Interpol,
Brick,
Pantytec,
Newcleus,
Erasure,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic, Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic, Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic, Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic.
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.