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 China and from Lyon.
But I was there.
I was there in 1980.
I was there at the first Cybotron show in Detroit.
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 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Toronto and Bremen.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Portland 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 1967 at the first Rodriguez practice in a loft in Detroit.
I was working on the theremin sounds with much patience.
I was there when David Bowie 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 PIL 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 Howard Jones. All the underground hits.
All The Star Department tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Radio Birdman record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grunge hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a linndrum and an arpeggiator and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Fugs record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a mellotron.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a linndrum.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Lee Hazlewood,
Pierre Henry,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
The Gories,
Lindisfarne,
Lower 48,
Sam Rivers,
Adolescents,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
The Evens,
Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines,
Thinking Fellers Union Local 282,
Toni Rubio,
R.M.O.,
Black Sheep,
Roger Hodgson,
Nick Fraelich,
Bluetip,
Warren Ellis,
Tommy Roe,
Blake Baxter,
Franke,
Audionom,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
Model 500,
Con Funk Shun,
John Holt,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
Todd Rundgren,
Youth Brigade,
T.S.O.L.,
The Techniques,
Faraquet,
Sugar Minott,
X-Ray Spex,
Cal Tjader,
Roxy Music,
Television Personalities,
The Red Krayola,
Infiniti,
The United States of America,
Fatback Band,
Black Pus,
The Fugs,
Ultravox,
The Count Five,
Camberwell Now,
Mr. Review,
The Gun Club,
The Saints,
Essential Logic,
Judy Mowatt,
Godley & Creme,
Motorama,
Qualms,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
The Velvet Underground,
David Bowie,
Amon Düül, Amon Düül, Amon Düül, Amon Düül.
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.