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 Papua New Guinea and from Bologna.
But I was there.
I was there in 1979.
I was there at the first Josef K show in Edinburgh.
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 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Calgary and Bremen.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Delhi 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 synthesizer sounds with much patience.
I was there when Captain Beefheart 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 Kayak to the disco 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 Country Joe & The Fish. All the underground hits.
All Ten City tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Leonard Cohen 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 '70s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a snare and a guitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Busters record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a chamberlin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Spandau Ballet,
Robert Hood,
Roger Hodgson,
Maleditus Sound,
Magazine,
The Cosmic Jokers,
La Düsseldorf,
Joe Smooth,
Quantec,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Sun City Girls,
The Toasters,
Moebius,
Vainqueur,
The Divine Comedy,
PIL,
The Gun Club,
Sound Behaviour,
Scrapy,
Ronan,
The Fall,
Joy Division,
Jacques Brel,
Eden Ahbez,
Oblivians,
Half Japanese,
Bobby Byrd,
Groovy Waters,
Drive Like Jehu,
Porter Ricks,
Scion,
Sandy B,
Nas,
Rotary Connection,
OOIOO,
Roxette,
Cybotron,
Funkadelic,
Reagan Youth,
Thompson Twins,
F. McDonald,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
Monks,
Ice-T,
Minutemen,
Radiopuhelimet,
Y Pants,
Arcadia,
Bill Near,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
Gichy Dan,
Eddi Front,
the Fania All-Stars,
Neil Young,
Ultimate Spinach,
Bob Dylan,
The Index,
Robert Wyatt,
Marcia Griffiths,
The Golliwogs, The Golliwogs, The Golliwogs, The Golliwogs.
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.