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 Yemen and from Jakarta.
But I was there.
I was there in 1975.
I was there at the first Throbbing Gristle 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 1964 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Milan and Stockholm.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Salvador 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 1983 at the first Lewis practice in a loft in Vancouver.
I was working on the theremin 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 Glenn Branca to the grime 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 Oneida. All the underground hits.
All Kevin Saunderson tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Sister Nancy record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rock hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a 808 and a sitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Boredoms record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a sitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Todd Rundgren,
Guru Guru,
Quando Quango,
The Slackers,
Intrusion,
The Zeros,
The Star Department,
Freddie Wadling,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
Pagans,
Rotary Connection,
The Count Five,
Gil Scott Heron,
Grey Daturas,
Sad Lovers and Giants,
Duran Duran,
Donny Hathaway,
New Order,
T.S.O.L.,
Yaz,
Television Personalities,
The Five Americans,
Wings,
Pet Shop Boys,
Sexual Harrassment,
Bobby Womack,
Lee Hazlewood,
Harry Pussy,
Interpol,
Girls At Our Best!,
The Mojo Men,
Roxette,
The Young Rascals,
Parry Music,
Yusef Lateef,
Thompson Twins,
Sly & The Family Stone,
Oblivians,
AZ,
Nils Olav,
Eric Copeland,
Make Up,
Barbara Tucker,
Junior Murvin,
Youth Brigade,
Sällskapet,
Average White Band,
Jeru the Damaja,
Richard Hell and the Voidoids,
Bang On A Can,
LL Cool J,
Smog,
Kerri Chandler,
Bang on a Can All-Stars,
Pantytec,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Public Image Ltd.,
The Beau Brummels,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
The Fortunes,
The Velvet Underground,
Jimmy McGriff,
Outsiders, Outsiders, Outsiders, Outsiders.
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.