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 Kuwait and from Houston.
But I was there.
I was there in 1971.
I was there at the first Big Star show in Memphis.
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 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Calgary and Philadelphia.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Bologna 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 1979 at the first Josef K practice in a loft in Edinburgh.
I was working on the synthesizer 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 Angels of Light & Akron/Family to the electroclash 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 London Community Gospel Choir. All the underground hits.
All Gabor Szabo tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Maleditus Sound record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal electroclash 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 mellotron and a spring reverb and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Swans record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a clarinet.
I hear that you and your band have sold your clarinet and bought a chamberlin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Rekid,
Bobbi Humphrey,
The Gories,
John Holt,
Infiniti,
Mad Mike,
The Smoke,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
Leonard Cohen,
Brothers Johnson,
Donny Hathaway,
The Durutti Column,
Todd Terry,
The Sound,
Kayak,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
Eric Dolphy,
Stereo Dub,
Byron Stingily,
The Remains,
Skaos,
Bluetip,
The Fugs,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
The Monks,
Michelle Simonal,
Barry Ungar,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
Bootsy Collins,
The Grass Roots,
Electric Light Orchestra,
Au Pairs,
Althea and Donna,
Sonic Youth,
Make Up,
Von Mondo,
Gian Franco Pienzio,
Gerry Rafferty,
Excepter,
Larry & the Blue Notes,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
Brick,
Scientists,
AZ,
Minutemen,
K-Klass,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
The Tremeloes,
Public Image Ltd.,
Scan 7,
Big Daddy Kane,
the Bar-Kays,
Babytalk,
D'Angelo,
Kaleidoscope,
Bill Near,
Maurizio,
Sex Pistols,
Subhumans,
Duran Duran,
The Royal Family And The Poor, The Royal Family And The Poor, The Royal Family And The Poor, The Royal Family And The Poor.
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.