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 Azerbaijan and from Edmonton.
But I was there.
I was there in 1968.
I was there at the first Bowie show in Bromley.
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 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Salvador and Jakarta.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Paris 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 1975 at the first Ubu practice in a loft in Cleveland.
I was working on the spring reverb sounds with much patience.
I was there when Holger Czukay 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 Moody Blues to the punk kids.
I played it at the Roxy.
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 The Moleskins. All the underground hits.
All Neu! tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience 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 '70s.
I hear you're buying a synthesizer and a linndrum and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Ultimate Spinach record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought an organ.
I hear that you and your band have sold your organ and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Sound,
Stetsasonic,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Rod Modell,
Zero Boys,
Sly & The Family Stone,
The Doors,
PIL,
the Slits,
Barry Ungar,
Archie Shepp,
Bootsy's Rubber Band,
Niagra,
Girls At Our Best!,
Lindisfarne,
The Names,
Au Pairs,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Lou Reed,
Wolf Eyes,
Scrapy,
Theoretical Girls,
Scott Walker,
Chris Corsano,
T. Rex,
It's A Beautiful Day,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
Harpers Bizarre,
Joy Division,
Bronski Beat,
The New Christs,
The Residents,
The Happenings,
Gabor Szabo,
The Barracudas,
Kayak,
Pere Ubu,
Mad Mike,
Minor Threat,
Television Personalities,
K-Klass,
Thinking Fellers Union Local 282,
Black Bananas,
Kings Of Tomorrow,
Robert Wyatt,
Suburban Knight,
Moss Icon,
Jeru the Damaja,
John Coltrane,
Outsiders,
Delon & Dalcan,
Rufus Thomas,
Vladislav Delay,
New York Dolls,
The Mummies,
OOIOO,
Lucky Dragons, Lucky Dragons, Lucky Dragons, Lucky Dragons.
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.