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 Andorra and from Spokane.
But I was there.
I was there in 1976.
I was there at the first Soft Boys show in Cambridge.
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 1961 to 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Bremen and Milan.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Mexico City 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 spring reverb 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 Richard Hell and the Voidoids to the crunk kids.
I played it at CBGB's.
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 Lou Christie. All the underground hits.
All The Birthday Party tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Buckinghams record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grime hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a theremin and a marimba and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Groovy Waters record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a spring reverb.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The American Breed,
One Last Wish,
Matthew Bourne,
Alton Ellis,
Gang Gang Dance,
Derrick Morgan,
CMW,
UT,
The Walker Brothers,
Oblivians,
D'Angelo,
Accadde A,
Lee Hazlewood,
the Swans,
Porter Ricks,
Camouflage,
JFA,
Monks,
Bobby Byrd,
The Count Five,
The Raincoats,
The Grass Roots,
Fort Wilson Riot,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
John Holt,
John Cale,
the Normal,
Amon Düül II,
The Human League,
The Fugs,
Tubeway Army,
Anakelly,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
Slave,
Mars,
Model 500,
Can,
Roy Ayers,
Althea and Donna,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
Eli Mardock,
The Martian,
The Gap Band,
X-101,
The Tremeloes,
Boredoms,
Pagans,
Newcleus,
Delon & Dalcan,
Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson,
Siglo XX,
Sister Nancy,
Nico,
Q and Not U,
Girls At Our Best!,
Johnny Osbourne,
Panda Bear,
Pharoah Sanders,
Pantytec,
Zero Boys,
X-102,
Toni Rubio, Toni Rubio, Toni Rubio, Toni Rubio.
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.