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 Lithuania and from Lille.
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 1960 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Philadelphia and Madrid.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Tokyo 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 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 Invisible to the rap kids.
I played it at the Troubador.
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 Bluetip. All the underground hits.
All Essential Logic tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Jacob Miller record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal punk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a guitar and an oboe and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Arab on Radar record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a linndrum.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a rhodes.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Joe Smooth,
ABBA,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
MC5,
Fugazi,
Shuggie Otis,
The Star Department,
Loose Ends,
Wally Richardson,
Ponytail,
The Beau Brummels,
The Music Machine,
E-Dancer,
Nick Fraelich,
Gichy Dan,
Echospace,
The Cosmic Jokers,
Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Supertramp,
The Skatalites,
The Shadows of Knight,
Altered Images,
Silicon Teens,
The Victims,
Yusef Lateef,
La Düsseldorf,
Ornette Coleman,
Bad Manners,
Niagra,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
A Flock of Seagulls,
Masters at Work,
Marshall Jefferson,
Severed Heads,
Jeru the Damaja,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
Sister Nancy,
Letta Mbulu,
Mantronix,
EPMD,
Sarah Menescal,
Symarip,
Intrusion,
Anthony Braxton,
The Move,
Mars,
Make Up,
Cameo,
The Fuzztones,
Red Lorry Yellow Lorry,
Piero Umiliani,
Gang Green,
Marc Romboy vs. Booka Shade,
The Fall,
Yazoo,
This Heat,
Don Cherry,
Flamin' Groovies,
Amazonics,
Mandrill,
Hot Snakes,
John Cale, John Cale, John Cale, John Cale.
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.