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 Togo and from Madrid.
But I was there.
I was there in 1977.
I was there at the first Human League show in Sheffield.
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 1966 to 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Spokane and Paris.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Manila 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 harpsichord sounds with much patience.
I was there when Donald Fagen 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 Gary Puckett & The Union Gap to the rock 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 Black Sheep. All the underground hits.
All Minor Threat tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Eric Dolphy 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 '50s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a linndrum and a sitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Rod Modell record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your clarinet and bought a linndrum.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a clarinet.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Warren Ellis,
Idris Muhammad,
MC5,
Y Pants,
Tubeway Army,
Television Personalities,
the Swans,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Quadrant,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
It's A Beautiful Day,
The Tremeloes,
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
Eric Dolphy,
Symarip,
Pierre Henry,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Bob Dylan,
Drive Like Jehu,
Metal Thangz,
Gastr Del Sol,
The United States of America,
Babytalk,
The Motions,
The Victims,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
Gang Gang Dance,
E-Dancer,
B.T. Express,
The Raincoats,
Sun City Girls,
The Beau Brummels,
Marcia Griffiths,
The Peanut Butter Conspiracy,
The Saints,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
Hardrive,
Ohio Players,
The Modern Lovers,
Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme,
Scion,
Kerrie Biddell,
The Young Rascals,
Bizarre Inc.,
Gabor Szabo,
Tom Boy,
A Certain Ratio,
The Human League,
Bootsy Collins,
The Smiths,
Michelle Simonal,
Crooked Eye,
Brand Nubian,
Rotary Connection,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
Ultimate Spinach,
The Monochrome Set,
Barclay James Harvest,
Au Pairs,
Sly & The Family Stone,
The J.B.'s,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
Bill Near, Bill Near, Bill Near, Bill Near.
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.