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 Eritrea and from Glasgow.
But I was there.
I was there in 1976.
I was there at the first Buzzcocks show in Bolton.
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 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Shanghai and Manila.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Edmonton 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 rhodes 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 Ultimate Spinach to the dance kids.
I played it at the Spitz.
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 Laurel Aitken. All the underground hits.
All ABC tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Neu! 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 '50s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a güiro and a harpsichord and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Kas Product record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a linndrum.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a 808.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Kaleidoscope,
Fad Gadget,
Jeff Lynne,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
The Raincoats,
Larry & the Blue Notes,
The Fugs,
Rotary Connection,
Marc Romboy vs. Booka Shade,
Bill Near,
Visage,
Cameo,
London Community Gospel Choir,
Khruangbin,
Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines,
Outsiders,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
Eric Dolphy,
Radiopuhelimet,
X-102,
Yellowson,
Intrusion,
The Move,
Bluetip,
Flipper,
Bronski Beat,
L. Decosne,
Funky Four + One,
Dorothy Ashby,
Quadrant,
Lakeside,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
Selector Dub Narcotic,
Nas,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
Symarip,
A Certain Ratio,
Essential Logic,
kango's stein massive,
Delta 5,
Kerrie Biddell,
Siglo XX,
Skarface,
Terrestrial Tones,
Unrelated Segments,
The Blues Magoos,
Chrome,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
Accadde A,
Hashim,
The Seeds,
In Retrospect,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
Rapeman,
Sandy B,
The Associates,
Joey Negro,
Skaos,
Minor Threat,
Gichy Dan,
Gastr Del Sol, Gastr Del Sol, Gastr Del Sol, Gastr Del Sol.
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.