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 South Sudan and from Glasgow.
But I was there.
I was there in 1983.
I was there at the first Art of Noise show in London.
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 1969 to 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Winnipeg and Houston.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Calgary 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 arpeggiator 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 Sunsets and Hearts to the electroclash kids.
I played it at the Hacienda.
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 Groovy Waters. All the underground hits.
All The Index tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Echo & the Bunnymen record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal jazz 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 clarinet and an arpeggiator 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 theremin and bought a chamberlin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a theremin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Talk Talk,
Radiohead,
Easy Going,
Grandmaster Flash,
Minnie Riperton,
Anakelly,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
The Victims,
Supertramp,
Deakin,
The Buckinghams,
The Count Five,
Arthur Verocai,
Eve St. Jones,
Mandrill,
Steve Hackett,
Jawbox,
It's A Beautiful Day,
Depeche Mode,
Sam Rivers,
Danielle Patucci,
Joe Finger,
Scion,
U.S. Maple,
Cecil Taylor,
Charles Mingus,
cv313,
The Mighty Diamonds,
The Remains,
Don Cherry,
Sly & The Family Stone,
B.T. Express,
Barry Ungar,
Rites of Spring,
The Dirtbombs,
Rotary Connection,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
Spoonie Gee,
Jerry's Kids,
Nirvana,
Suicide,
Letta Mbulu,
Moby Grape,
Oblivians,
Minutemen,
Agent Orange,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
E-Dancer,
Flamin' Groovies,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
The Five Americans,
Juan Atkins,
Blancmange,
Kool Moe Dee,
Bill Wells,
The Standells,
The Selecter,
Roger Hodgson,
Kevin Saunderson,
Sun City Girls, Sun City Girls, Sun City Girls, Sun City Girls.
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.