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 Ireland and from Johannesburg.
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 1965 to 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in London and Columbus.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Delhi 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 1977 at the first Zapp practice in a loft in Hamilton.
I was working on the linndrum sounds with much patience.
I was there when Michael McDonald 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 Jesus and Mary Chain to the funk kids.
I played it at Cafe Wha.
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 Bush Tetras. All the underground hits.
All Pharoah Sanders tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every CMW record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal disco hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a mellotron and an oboe and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Godley & Creme record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a harpsichord.
I hear that you and your band have sold your harpsichord and bought a linndrum.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Urselle,
Iggy Pop,
The Golliwogs,
Basic Channel,
Big Daddy Kane,
Q65,
Jerry's Kids,
Gastr Del Sol,
Black Flag,
Banda Bassotti,
The Litter,
The Monks,
Kenny Larkin,
Bang on a Can All-Stars,
The Men They Couldn't Hang,
Brothers Johnson,
Public Enemy,
Terrestrial Tones,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
MC5,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
Al Stewart,
Pantaleimon,
Erasure,
Unrelated Segments,
Pagans,
Sandy B,
Man Parrish,
New York Dolls,
New Order,
The Neon Judgement,
Eric B and Rakim,
The Gap Band,
Maleditus Sound,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Ultravox,
Ice-T,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx,
The Moleskins,
Young Marble Giants,
The Modern Lovers,
Max Romeo,
Roxy Music,
Joe Finger,
Jacob Miller,
The Mighty Diamonds,
Erykah Badu,
Rites of Spring,
Ken Boothe,
Nation of Ulysses,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Smog,
The Gladiators,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
Brand Nubian,
Wally Richardson,
Youth Brigade,
X-101,
John Foxx, John Foxx, John Foxx, John Foxx.
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.