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 Eritrea and from Manchester.
But I was there.
I was there in 1973.
I was there at the first Television show in New York.
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 1962 to 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Cairo and New York.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Glasgow 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 2001 at the first Tiga practice in a loft in Montreal.
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 The Slackers to the rock kids.
I played it at Cafe Wha.
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 Black Bananas. All the underground hits.
All Liliput tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Icehouse 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 '60s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a marimba and a rhodes and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a CMW record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a snare.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Average White Band,
China Crisis,
June Days,
Animal Collective,
Laurel Aitken,
EPMD,
Agent Orange,
Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme,
The Offenders,
The Evens,
Eric Copeland,
New Order,
Johnny Osbourne,
Tropical Tobacco,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
The Barracudas,
X-Ray Spex,
Aloha Tigers,
Slick Rick,
Josef K,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Ice-T,
Stockholm Monsters,
The Trojans,
The Fugs,
Donny Hathaway,
The Dead C,
Colin Newman,
Yellowson,
Moebius,
Buzzcocks,
Niagra,
Pet Shop Boys,
Soulsonic Force,
Sad Lovers and Giants,
Gerry Rafferty,
The Seeds,
Tears for Fears,
Ralphi Rosario,
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
The Toasters,
Thinking Fellers Union Local 282,
Warren Ellis,
Electric Light Orchestra,
Hoover,
Piero Umiliani,
Todd Rundgren,
Monks,
Ultimate Spinach,
Loose Ends,
Anthony Braxton,
Lungfish,
a-ha,
L. Decosne,
Hardrive,
Drexciya,
T.S.O.L.,
Barrington Levy,
Idris Muhammad,
Blossom Toes, Blossom Toes, Blossom Toes, Blossom Toes.
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.