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 Morocco and from Spokane.
But I was there.
I was there in 1971.
I was there at the first Selda show in Istanbul.
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 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Spokane and Glasgow.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Shanghai 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 rhodes 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 The Blackbyrds to the grunge 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 The Pop Group. All the underground hits.
All The Monochrome Set tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Scott Walker + Sunn O))) 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 an oboe and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Animal Collective record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your güiro and bought a mellotron.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a güiro.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Swans,
Boredoms,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
David Bowie,
Anakelly,
Flamin' Groovies,
Joe Finger,
The Sisters of Mercy,
Unrelated Segments,
The Index,
Sonny Sharrock,
UT,
The Men They Couldn't Hang,
Babytalk,
Bootsy's Rubber Band,
Cluster,
Alice Coltrane,
John Lydon,
The Modern Lovers,
Inner City,
Bobbi Humphrey,
Archie Shepp,
Yazoo,
The Electric Prunes,
Robert Wyatt,
Clear Light,
Vainqueur,
The Golliwogs,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Isaac Hayes,
Terrestrial Tones,
Laurel Aitken,
Severed Heads,
Joe Smooth,
Howard Jones,
Quadrant,
Crash Course in Science,
MC5,
Gong,
Zapp,
New York Dolls,
The Leaves,
Technova,
Strawberry Alarm Clock,
Pharoah Sanders,
The Five Americans,
Soulsonic Force,
Red Lorry Yellow Lorry,
Gang Starr,
Surgeon,
Susan Cadogan,
Warsaw,
The Wake,
Public Image Ltd.,
Groovy Waters,
Maurizio,
Girls At Our Best!,
Country Teasers,
Max Romeo,
Minor Threat, Minor Threat, Minor Threat, Minor Threat.
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.